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This is an argument against centralization more than it is against government. "One index to rule them all" seems more fraught with difficulty than, "large clo
by ISL 6y ago
This is an argument against centralization more than it is against government.
"One index to rule them all" seems more fraught with difficulty than, "large cloud providers are unhappy that crawlers on the open web are crawling the open web".
- whimsicalism 6y agoIf the impact stopped at "large cloud providers" being unhappy, I think that you're correct. But I think we've seen considerably downstream "difficulty" for the rest of society from search essentially being consolidated into one private actor.