With the frustrations from using the usual search engines growing I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
It seems we’ve poisoned the well by allowing the proliferation of advertising interests to dominate the web.
Like how hard would it be to make your own non-commercial index?
Only human made sites that aren’t related to buying, selling, marketing, etc.
Could that be a federated open-source project?
With the open source tools that are available nowadays I think it’s not necessary hard, but you shouldn’t underestimate the hardware costs required to do this well. You will need a lot of high speed disk space to store the index and you will need an army of crawlers to stay up to date.
Interesting. I wonder if we’ve finally found a use for blockchain.
*Edit: lol, the downvotes. Sheesh
We haven’t