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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by toomuchtodo on Sunday May 24, 2015 @12:41AM (#9595317)
How much would a Google search cost me if it wasn't ad supported?
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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by ivank on Sunday May 24, 2015 @12:46AM (#9595333)
Some numbers from 2009 say 1.18 cents/search:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110201052634/http://billwarner...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110938

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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by Moru on Sunday May 24, 2015 @01:50AM (#9595456)
If google started taking money for searching they would quickly be marginalized.
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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by bottled_poe on Sunday May 24, 2015 @04:04AM (#9595653)
How exactly? I thought we are assuming that advertising would become worthless if everyone was blocking the ads...
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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by devsquid on Sunday May 24, 2015 @12:50AM (#9595344)
Yea but the question is impossible to answer. Google would have had to balance many differ factors, both of which would have changed as they grew larger.
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Re:Firefox tracking protection decreases page load time by 44% by dredmorbius on Sunday May 24, 2015 @04:24AM (#9595685)
Consider alternatives such as DDG or YaCy and their cost structures.

The alternative need not replicate all of Google's infrastructure.

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