> Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative"...

		account42 on July 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google is the only search engine that works on Red... > Microsoft can throw around $60M, and Bing is used by most of the "alternative" search engines. That's a symptom of the issue, not a solution. Bing is used because having your own crawler is infeasible, partially because you will be literally blocked in many cases.