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Google seems to have a pretty authoritative monopoly on search right now, which is not decentralized at all. We are safe in the sense of Google failing, as ther
by Taek 10y ago
Google seems to have a pretty authoritative monopoly on search right now, which is not decentralized at all. We are safe in the sense of Google failing, as there are half a dozen other mostly decent search engines - that's not sufficient though. If Google starts censoring right-wing websites or favoriting their own political agenda in their search results, would we even know? We would not! There's no transparency into the system.
I guess really the term I am looking for is 'trustless'. I don't want to have to trust Google to do the right thing, I just want it to be manifest that there is no manipulation, and no single point of failure.
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