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		rijoja on March 26, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web yes

pmiller2 on March 26, 2021 [–]

Where's the money?

ClumsyPilot on March 27, 2021 | | [–]

That's like arguing that newspapers are not a market, because it makes money from ads.

pmiller2 on March 27, 2021 | | | [–]

No, I was asking if web search was a market independent of ads.

BTW, newspapers also make money from subscriptions and sales of copies, so your analogy is doubly wrong.

throwaway_kufu on March 27, 2021 | | [–]

In collecting and selling your data to 3rd parties.

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