> Searching public data is already decentralized: anyone can run a web crawler and search engine. That is nice in theory, but not how it works in practice. Sea

> Searching public data is already decentralized: anyone can run a web crawler and search engine. That is nice in theory, but not how it works in practice. Searching public data generally involves a significant amount of investment, both financially and effort-wise, to have anything approaching a usable search engine, even for relatively small sets of data.