Great idea, and "instant search the web" would probably a better pitch then "non-profit search engine". Interesting argument that google doesn't do this because it isn't compatible with their ad model, but that doesn't mean a new ad-funded search engine can't do this. For google it might be billions of dollars in lost revenue while they adjust their ad model, a new ad-funded search engine wouldn't have this problem.
> Frictionless ... For example if you are typing “facebook” or “hmrc login” you could go straight there from the address bar.
No thanks. I sometimes do search for "company name" looking for the wikipedia article for the company, or news about the company, or information about the company in general. If you used facebook before, then it's going to autocomplete as soon as you type "face" in your addressbar, and you won't need the search engine. So if someone searches for facebook, they're either using the browser for the first time, or they're looking for information about facebook. Latter seems more likely.
Great idea, and "instant search the web" would probably a better pitch then "non-profit search engine". Interesting argument that google doesn't do this because it isn't compatible with their ad model, but that doesn't mean a new ad-funded search engine can't do this. For google it might be billions of dollars in lost revenue while they adjust their ad model, a new ad-funded search engine wouldn't have this problem.
> Frictionless ... For example if you are typing “facebook” or “hmrc login” you could go straight there from the address bar.
No thanks. I sometimes do search for "company name" looking for the wikipedia article for the company, or news about the company, or information about the company in general. If you used facebook before, then it's going to autocomplete as soon as you type "face" in your addressbar, and you won't need the search engine. So if someone searches for facebook, they're either using the browser for the first time, or they're looking for information about facebook. Latter seems more likely.