I always wondered if a distributed trustless search engine is possible. There are a few out there but non-of them come close in terms of result quality or speed

I always wondered if a distributed trustless search engine is possible. There are a few out there but non-of them come close in terms of result quality or speed. You also run into an issue where if the nodes are doing the indexing they can influence how much priority results have but if you can overcome that it would be very interesting. Content of the article aside... As an ex-Lycos employee I find it so strange how it seems to be wiped out of peoples' memory. Lycos was an innovator and top contender at one point. That image of search engines has several companies Lycos bought but not Lycos itself. I'd say it is because Lycos predates Google but Altavista is on there and others.