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sadly true, but an open source engine like searx could be made to do such a thing
by snlnspc 7y ago
sadly true, but an open source engine like searx could be made to do such a thing
- tomcam 7y agoHow could it be sustained? Search engines are expensive to run.
- pmoriarty 7y agoIt could be a subscription service.
- Chico75 7y agoThe real cost is in the infrastructure needed to run it unless you go full P2P
- edoceo 7y agoP2P it is then!
- CodeWriter23 7y agoYes, Search could use some Bittorrent-like disruption.
- MR4D 7y agoI wonder though - is too much of the P2P universe now mobile devices instead of regular computers that it wouldn’t be feasible?
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y agoP2P can be done on mobile but you're fighting against limited resources (storage, bandwidth, CPU). The reason P2P got good on PC is because storage got cheaper, bandwidth was increasing and CPUs kept getting faster.
- MR4D 7y agoRight. So texting on P2P is easy and appropriate, but I can’t see how building a search engine on P2P would really work well given those limited resources.
- mythrwy 7y agoIt's important enough, and currently wastes enough of my time (read: SEO crap, Medium and Reddit are top results for... everything) that I'd happily pay for a good search engine!
- ofrzeta 7y agoThere's YaCy already: https://yacy.net https://yacy.net