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There used to be a search engine in the mid 2000s that was just like this.

It was called ChaCha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)

Yep. That was the idea. 'voice assistants' came along, smart phones took off, and cell speeds became fast enough to make ChaCha untenable.

Source: worked at ChaCha.

Wow where did you go after! AskJeeves?

Acquired by Google in 2010 and ...

Fifty million dollars would change my life. I would take a guaranteed fifty million dollars payout over one in ten chance to get a billion dollars.

What are the chances that I cumbents will stand by idly as the "next Google" just takes over? Best case I can think of is the incumbent imitates the upstart and becomes better.

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