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This is exactly the kind of project a google employee would do with their 20% free time. It would also fit perfectly with the hundreds of custom search options in google search. But that is it. It doesn’t fit as a business by itself. Google has spoiled our brains into thinking anything that sustains user interest is a business. It’s valuable to google not for us!

It also doesn’t scale well as more papers come out they need more consultants to populate the database with it. So one option for OP was to sell to google but I dont think it scales well enough for them to buy either.



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