4 ms·
> Why the second constraint? one might > ask. Besides the obvious potential for > profitability, our mission was The search engine the world needs is o
by charlesism 7y ago
> Why the second constraint? one might
> ask. Besides the obvious potential for
> profitability, our mission was
The search engine the world needs is one with independence and non-profitability. If the creators are preoccupied with turning a profit, they’ll introduce the same garbage features as Google. It’s a shame, because a good search engine could shorten the time humanity has to wait for advances (eg: cures for cancers, cheaper energy, etc)
- erulabs 7y agoIndexing the web is a resource intensive activity tho - if it was federated then the resource cost only increases. I suppose a non-profit is the alternative, but non-profits are not exactly independent unless they have some sort of massive endowment. I'm not trying to disagree with you, it's just a paradoxical problem: to resolve the issue, resources must be accumulated. Accumulating resources means it's hard to resolve the issue (of an independent search engine).