Evil Google

[babysimon]

[Poll #36223]

To answer this question, assume that in the Evil Alternate Universe where Evil Google are based, there's no useful free competitor to Google -- it's pay up, or face the horrors of the old Altavista-like search. In this Evil Universe you also have to pay to use the "powered-by-google" searches (including Yahoo, Netscape, etc).

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

But the horror! "Paul, you've got a Google subscription, haven't you? Could you just...?"

[babysimon]

God, I hadn't even thought of that....

[booklectica]

...And as I said on Friday, I think that if this actually happened, a free competitor to Google would spring up almost immediately. The Internet abhors a vacuum.