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One idea I have been kicking around is the idea of federating the indices, not the crawling. If every contributor maintained their own index, then you could re
by zomglings 5y ago
One idea I have been kicking around is the idea of federating the indices, not the crawling.
If every contributor maintained their own index, then you could reward contributors based on how many hits their index generated.
This would open up the possibility of people maintaining indices for specialized topics that they were experts in, and give the federated search engine a shot at taking on Google.
- bspammer 5y agoYou don’t want to reward people for quantity, but quality. The cost of creating a new webpage is effectively zero, so if you attach an incentive for creating them you are doomed.
- zomglings 5y agoYou and I are talking about completely different types of people. For most people, the cost of creating and maintaining a website is high. This is why products like Wix and Squarespace exist (and are not cheap). I am thinking a simple dashboard where anyone could go and curate a list of content they find useful. They could share this with the world. The interface should be so simple that my parents could use it - and they aren't going to be putting up websites anytime soon.
- DarylZero 5y agoThis is what Yahoo was doing before Google took over. (But of course it wasn't a volunteer public benefit effort like you describe.)