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> Based on the really, really crappy results that google gaves me out lately People on Hacker News seem to think Google's results have gotten worse over time. Maybe they have for t…

Would you pay, say, $120/year? What if it wasn't nearly as good as Google yet?

Google's revenue per user is unfortunately much higher than $10/year.

Sounds like a great opportunity for you to enter the market and capture one of these alternative revenue channels with your ad-free search engine.

And when effectively no users opt in to advertising, how does the search engine stay in business? It does actually cost money to operate a good search engine.

Anyone have a mirror?

I'm not sure splitting off the crawler would have the effect you want it to. Crawling is hard, but actually one of the easier parts of building a search engine. There are less comp…

I guess the present day somehow seems more relevant?

One reason to care which is bigger is the effect they each will have on the norms of governance around the world. Superpowers tend to nudge the rest of the world's governments to b…

TFJS, yep!

Many games still aren't available on Mac, and things like Wine are not nearly as clean of an experience as just installing games in native Windows. I'd guess switching to ARM will …

I made a tool for visualizing text in 3D: https://nebulate.ai It runs a machine learning model in your browser to convert the text into points in a high dimensional space, and then…

I'm working on a project right now where the centerpiece is a Three.js scene. It's about data visualization, so the surrounding code covers much of the same ground as a typical sin…