> Sooner or later the internet will have to be decentralized. It sounds like a pipe dream. Centralisation exists for a reason: it's far easier to coordinate co

> Sooner or later the internet will have to be decentralized. It sounds like a pipe dream. Centralisation exists for a reason: it's far easier to coordinate complex efforts within a single organisation, rather than a host of unreliable entities. Supposedly, we develop a protocol where we share the responsibility of crawling, indexing, and searching the whole web. Isn't is unrealistic to expect that millions of computers (an optimistic estimate considering number of Google servers dedicated to Search) would voluntarily want to participate in the effort? Who ensures redundancy, speed, and abuse handling? If a single company commanding the whole power is untrustworthy, a million entities having no stake in the game is multifold more.