BrendanEich
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@BrendanEich
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brave.com/premium lists all of our premium products: VPN, ad-free search, Leo browser-ai, Talk (no Zoom). Thus the simplest way to support
@bravedirectly is to buy Brave Premium Search at $3/month, for no search ads ever, so we can go even harder against Big Tech. Thanks.
Ray the just (including crocodile grin at end).
There is no "pure data" company. Data is what's given, often implicitly by user action, and it is not a commodity: it is non-rivalrous, perishable, non-fungible, non-depletable, ~zero marginal cost, etc. Google isn't a data company without users who run its apps. Use
@brave.
Replying to @ariutokintumi @CColorado and 3 others
Scrape != Crawl. Real search engines run global algorithms over very big data. Search data from users isn't crawled. You can scrape SERPs or API results, but these decay. You need lead user signals to find fresh gold. Economics and law come to the fore: search.brave.com/ask?q=google+g…
The web evolved so quickly, protocols for crawling and micropayments didn't have a chance (but see x402 MG work now, all hail the HTTP 402 response code). Same thing happened with ads, which became a Turing Tarpit of JS-mediated ad tech (I've paid my dues; please use
@brave).
Replying to @BrendanEich @ContextlessThot and 4 others
If you erase the distinction between monopoly or duopoly search engines and other kinds of websites, sure: it's all the same. In reality, legally, commercially, and for a healthy Open Web with search engine choice and competition, it's not all the same. Scraping != crawling.
