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Thank you for this, but I feel like you should make a profit and this is currently a missed opportunity to use web3 principles to do that. Free and open softwa
by prohobo 5y ago
Thank you for this, but I feel like you should make a profit and this is currently a missed opportunity to use web3 principles to do that.
Free and open software is a great ideal, but the reality is that people need money to live - and ads are the way to make that money on web2 platforms, which is why Google is in such a sad state. Why not do something similar to Brave? You can add tokenomics to the search engine and make money while keeping it 100% useable and open source.
- everydaybro 5y agoexactly, free and opensource is amazing, but the developer should also earn money to live, maybe add donations, or maybe add some web3 features
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- astoor 5y agoHow would web3 and "tokenomics" solve search? If the underlying problem is that spamdexers are given a profit incentive to game search engine results with low effort and low quality content, does it make a difference whether the profit incentive is via pages generating advertising revenue or pages generating cryptocurrency revenue?
- prohobo 5y agoI don't really want to address your questions; this has been talked to death. How do you think tokens could help? Maybe they'd create incentives for users to use the engine. Maybe they'd open a market for said tokens so the dev can extract currency out of it. Maybe tokens can be a meta-system on top of the search engine, so that the search functionality can be left to solving the search problem without interference. Do you think there's an alternative to tokens in order to fund the project without degrading the search algorithm? If so, I'm all ears. In fact, I think we all are. Please enlighten us. But you haven't proposed a solution while crypto devs have been working on one since 2008.