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I guess this is just asking for negative karma, but I too thought that the conventional wisdom was that the barrier to entry for search engines was relatively high.

No, not telecom high, but it does take a pretty significant amount of hardware to index and deliver that much data. No?




> it does take a pretty significant amount of hardware to index and deliver that much data. No?

That's a barrier due to the intrinsic nature of the technology in question. It's not a barrier due to legal, political, social, etc difficulties.


Duck Duck Go has been doing a pretty good job of it, and from what I can tell, it's just one guy, self-financed.


He primarily relies on Y!BOSS, which uses a $300M infrastructure.




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