[dfwgator]

But who will be laughing when you’ll have to start paying Google to search?

[The Continental Op]

“But who will be laughing when you’ll have to start paying Google to search?”
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Will never happen. They make a fortune just aggregating and selling your data. Far more intrusive than the average person believes.

[roadcat]

But who will be laughing when you’ll have to start paying Google to search?

There are plenty of other search sites, and they are better than Google because some of them don't track you or record your data. Some even act as proxies to hide your origination from the destination. Google is allied with the government snoops.

[a fool in paradise]

Google already collects money on searches from those who pay to appear at the top of search results.

[Secret Agent Man]

There are plenty of alternatives to google.

Fuch google.

[glasseye]

When webpages start paying for my screen & all the bandwidth they are stealing from me I will be ready to have that discussion.

[Colorado Doug]

But who will be laughing when you’ll have to start paying Google to search?

There were search engines before Google, there will be search engines after google. Honestly, I think that many of the search engines before Google were better. It seems like Google is always trying to steer me to alibaba or some such thing.