I was just idly threatening to do something, not actually starting a venture to do it.

But, in any case, lets go with your numbers for running costs: in 2024 money, what is your estimation of the running costs?

I ask because there have been a number of new search engines pop up, and they have nowhere near the expenditure power of google, yet they still have devoted followings.

> The second challenge is your ranking. Now that you've become the dominant search engine with your awesome ranking system [snipped problems that follow]

TBH, that's the best kind of problems to have. Lets become dominant first before we say there's no point in becoming dominant.