> There's so much Google is doing to directly damage the technology ecosystem. The best way to counter that is to work on alternatives. I've always wondered w

> There's so much Google is doing to directly damage the technology ecosystem. The best way to counter that is to work on alternatives. I've always wondered why search couldn't be like DNS or server-side caches; every server could index all the content that passes through it, and clients would query all nearby servers. Other HNers have previously said that indexing is the easy part; it's providing relevant results and reducing spam that's hard. Well, when the indexing is freely available to everyone, maybe we could use on-device client apps to navigate that index, each with our own preferences.