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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by ZoFreX on Friday May 30, 2014 @04:43AM (#7820833)
One that you pay for.
Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by gone35 on Friday May 30, 2014 @10:08AM (#7821855)
Or a non-profit search engine as a public good service --like Wikipedia, or the Internet Archive.

Obviously storage and networking costs would make it impossible today, but it might be feasible in the not-so-distant future. Either way, sooner or later people will realize the absurdity from a public-interest point of view of having "all the world's information" in the hands of a single corporation whose sole legal purpose is maximize its owners' profit --like it happened with other media in the past, like broadcast news.

Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by pjc50 on Friday May 30, 2014 @08:50AM (#7821440)
What search engine is that, then?