• kungfuratte@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Yet it would be interesting to hear, why this shocks you so much. :)

      Is it because you don’t think search engines are a service worth paying for or because Google, Bing, DDG … are free?

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        The game is rigged anyway, paying is incredibly stupid.

        It’s so american to even think of it lmao.

        The google search engine is dying, and AI is accelerating it’s death with all this bullshit content.

        The future of search engine is not another netflix-bullshit-like subscription service, it’s a free foundation like wiki or a decentralized system.

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          I’m not sure if this is really feasible (even though I’d be happy to see a working libre search engine). The problem I see is that a search engine is incredibly expensive to run, which makes it hard to maintain servers on a donation model.