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Search engines shouldn't cost .5% of your monthly salary
Minimum wage in Germany gets you ~1700€ after taxes, making 5€ closer to 0.3% of your income. Beside that there are so many other things you could save a bit on instead of complaining about a single 5€ subscription for an actually very important service
https://finanz-handbuch.de/en/personal-finance/salary/minimum-wage/#minimum-wage-amount
Good thing that it seems to be made in portugal where the minimum wage is half than that and where housing is currently being set at 50 or 60% of that wage.
How do you feel about ads in your search?
I designed a whole p2p search engine protocol, implemented it, ran it, and nobody cared. Because tech isn't the problem and ressources are not the problem either. Greed is
Did you have an index of the entire Internet?
I'm assuming no. The crawl itself is pretty damn costly.