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As it is now, the one who provides the data is the one who pays for everything (production, storage, compute, bandwidth), while middleman search engines take al
by z3t4 8y ago
As it is now, the one who provides the data is the one who pays for everything (production, storage, compute, bandwidth), while middleman search engines take all the money. What if the middleman was required to pay a fee to index the data ? For example build money transactions into the HTTP protocol, where web sites could automatically ask for a small fee in order to "see more".
- jhasse 8y agoNo website would ask for the fee for SEO reasons.
- teddyh 8y agoIIRC, the (by some definition) original hypertext system, Xanadu, had this. It was supposed to (among many other things) keep track of who quoted who and how much and make sure everybody got paid fairly. It was much too complex and never got anywhere, and was completely replaced when the WWW came along with its dead simple model of URLs and HTML.