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One of colleagues argues that search has become infrastructure and thus there should be an offering from the state which is also responsible for other infrastru
by cygned 8y ago
One of colleagues argues that search has become infrastructure and thus there should be an offering from the state which is also responsible for other infrastructure.
There was a (failed) attempt by the EU I know about. And I don’t see that happening in the near future.
- jackvezkovic 8y agoThe state spending money to provide you a search engine to select the information they want to show you? Just sounds like a terrible idea.
- prepend 8y agoYour friend is right in theory, but in practice no State is capable of providing such a service. The US isn’t even capable of providing a search interface to its own web sites that competes with commercial offering (eg, using google is better than the sites built in search). The EU attempt was called Qaero [0] and wasn’t an exact google didyougogo competitor as I think it’s focus was on video and audio. But they spent at least $99M from 2005-2013 and had absolutely trash results. It’s kind of weird how hard it is for some organizations to do some things. You would think with a hundred million bucks you would get something. DDG [1] was self funded initially and then with $3M and they are pretty useful despite 30x less funding. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/duck-duck-go https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/duck-duck-go