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> You lose out on the discoverability that centralized hubs give you. This isn't a real trade off. Consider how the web traditionally worked. Everyone has thei
by zrm 7y ago
> You lose out on the discoverability that centralized hubs give you.
This isn't a real trade off. Consider how the web traditionally worked. Everyone has their own website, then you have search engines like Google or Yahoo that allow you to find anything anywhere.
A third-party search engine doesn't have most of the centralization problems you get with a Facebook or a YouTube, because people only use them to the extent that they're good, which means returning the search results people want. Moreover, if YouTube goes bust, all your videos disappear with it, but if Altavista goes bust, Yahoo and Google continue to exist and index all the same information.
You can have things that index all the other things without them being a single centralized monopoly.
- lanstin 7y agoMaybe someone can come up with a decentralized search infrastructure. Something agent based perhaps. Otherwise the search is both centralized and in the position to make money from ads.
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoYaCy got you covered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy Never tried it, so don't know how good it is.
- viraptor 7y agoIt's works, but it's not amazing. You basically have to use your own spam solution for it, because the bare index will be always gamed in some way - that makes it hard in practice. The scoring algorithm is also not amazing. For example searching for ycombinator gives you http://hackr.de/tags/ycombinator http://hackr.de/tags/ycombinator and some Twitter entries as top results.