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Can there exist such a search engine that can stay objective in the long haul? I'm not particularly mad about Google putting ads, since the world is waking up
by danr4 7y ago
Can there exist such a search engine that can stay objective in the long haul?
I'm not particularly mad about Google putting ads, since the world is waking up and I believe in the future it will be obsolete.
But as I see it, the problem is that all search engines have this issue where the more volume it has, the more lucrative it is to game it. Let's say DuckDuckGo becomes vastly superior and widely used, what's preventing it from becoming another spam machine where SEO is the name of the game.
As I see it, there's no really good solution here. Maybe some open source indexing algorithm and a different search engine for different types of content.
- claudeganon 7y agoYes. There are well-funded university and scientific CS departments across the country that could design and maintain such a system, free of these influences as a technology iniative. It’s how the internet was built and where page rank came from originally.
- scarface74 7y agoIndexing is easy. It’s a solved computer science problem that you just need to throw hardware at. Ranking and relevant searching is the hard part and is partly influenced by adding usage data of millions of people.
- techdragon 7y agoThe solution I’ve settled on is a paid search engine. Pass the costs on directly and have the customers be the ones actually performing searches. Then the search quality is the product and the companies incentives are focused on preventing other people gaming the system to the detriment of their customers. But nobody wants to pay for anything on the internet /only-half-kidding
- fghtr 7y ago>> Can there exist such a search engine that can stay objective in the long haul? Yes, if it's distributed: https://yacy.net https://yacy.net