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> I don’t think web index would ever be free

Yet the company first mentioned does it for free, lol:

I've checked Datastreamer.io for 5 seconds, I don't see any link to their repo. If not "open source" then what does "open" mean?

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Commoncrawl is not a company, it's a non-profit. Open means you can access the data, there is no assumption about the data being free or not.

What? It's a nonprofit organization engaging in nonprofit business. Any organization that engages in business is a "company." Common Crawl is a company. Your comment isn't accurate and it doesn't address the parent's comment.

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