Ask HN: What would you build on top of an "open" Google index? 6 points by iroy 13y ago ↗ HN 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?
[–] debacle 13y ago ↗ The 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. [–] [dead] iroy 13y ago ↗ Could equally apply to any app on the Apple market place. Yet for some strange reason people actually pay to develop on that platform.
[–] [dead] iroy 13y ago ↗ Could equally apply to any app on the Apple market place. Yet for some strange reason people actually pay to develop on that platform.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 16.7 ms ] threadIf 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.