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devmunchies on July 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: One company's plan to build a search engine Google...

They don’t need google scale, they just need profitability.

A premium search engine can have a place with professionals. Maybe they could sell enterprise licenses.

omarchowdhury on July 27, 2020 [–]

> They don’t need google scale, they just need profitability.

Oh? They did take money from Greylock and Sequoia. Don't those guys aim as high as possible?

devmunchies on July 27, 2020 | [–]

They’d get acquired by google before they get google scale.

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