What if Google opened its index and created a search market place? Are there domain/location specific apps that can be built around/on top off those returned results?
Ask HN: What would you build on top of an "open" Google index?
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Re: Ask HN: What would you build on top of an "open" Google index?
#2The cost would be a huge factor. If it's free, I wouldn't build anything, because that's a recipe for "Oops, Google deprecated our business model."
If it's not free, there's still a concern that Google could borrow your business model.
Basing your business model entirely on the content from a third party service has shown, in recent years, to be a nearly complete disaster.
Re: Ask HN: What would you build on top of an "open" Google index?
#3The cost would be a huge factor. If it's free, I wouldn't build anything, because that's a recipe for "Oops, Google deprecated our business model." If it's not free, there's still a concern that Google could borrow your business model. Basing your business model entirely on the content from a third party service has shown, in recent years, to be a nearly complete disaster.
Could equally apply to any app on the Apple market place. Yet for some strange reason people actually pay to develop on that platform.