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No, we need decentralized search and content distribution. An individual group or company can't replace Google and if it did it would be just as bad as them. An
by ilaksh 5y ago
No, we need decentralized search and content distribution. An individual group or company can't replace Google and if it did it would be just as bad as them. And the reason you have these dominant companies is because they provide all-encompassing services. Not niche topics. Take a look at https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/ as one potential starting point to think about.
The basic thing that people will eventually start to understand is that in fact we already have a good start on creating technologies that allow for cooperative public data systems that can replace the private technology monopoly platforms.
- PeterisP 5y agoA challenge for decentralized search and content distribution is the antagonistic relationship between search and content distribution, e.g. SEO manipulation. Cooperation is difficult when interests diverge a lot, as they do between content providers and users with respect to search (users want to find the most relevant provider for their search, providers want their resource to be found for all searches, no matter how irrelevant). A decentralized search engine controlled by the users' interests must be hard for the content providers to "infiltrate" and control the results, or it's useless because as soon as it will become sufficiently popular to matter, intentional manipulation and spam will become popular.
- boyter 5y agoYacy as much as I love the idea isn’t brilliant. Mententined elsewhere but I’d like to see an activitypub implementation allowing federated search.