Based on the amount of Cash Google makes, and the fact that their entire systm is automated (adsense and adwords) on would think that a public search engine would be able to fund itself, pay for its own servers, and pay for a management team to run it? I would have thought that if the guys behind Cuil.com were to have taken this direction they would have been massively sucessful.... what ever happened to them?

beed doing my own blog trying to help save the world www.plugin.com

cant help but to say i told you so http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/05/1421258/Google-Patent-Proposes-2-Fee-To-Skip-Commercials

thats just cuz you work for google

I think everyone should boycott google, they are using search to own just about every facet of our lives.

Well this is just one more good reason to take the move to plugin electric cars seriously, the majority of oil is burnt up in transport every day and if the public were to boycott gas burning vehicles (seems we all already forgot about the BP spill in the gulf) we could avoid the apocalypse that the oil wars will surely bring about. Plugin electic cars and clean nuclear energy are the answer.... Obama is pushing America in that direction but the public needs to get behind this transition http://www.plugin.com/2010/09/alexander-agrees-with-obama-on-electric-vehicles/

They also make the OSS version VERY difficult to install, and bugs that affect 90% of installs are well hidden and un-documented, forcing you to PAY PAY PAY very sneaky...

wow, its amazing to see so many google lovers out there or are most of the folks here hired by google to promote their 'we do no evil' philosophy? if microsoft did this they would have been slammed to high hell from the get go...

woowoo homer is going to love this!!! and mr burns will be making bank with a few more subsidaries...

great, so first google totally rips of linux and calls it 'android' and now its ripping off java. Combine this with the fact that every company they buy becomes number 1 in their search index, killing of anyone who competes with them, and we get what we deserve. Personally i cant wait for my AI to search the web for me, cutting out the middle man.