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We will never see this happen, but I wish there was a legally mandated separation of web indexing services from the result ranking services. So user-facing sear

We will never see this happen, but I wish there was a legally mandated separation of web indexing services from the result ranking services. So user-facing search engines would be forced to rely on independent back-end companies for indexing the pages and storing results (in a neutral and interchangeable way), and launching a competing search engine would not involve a multi-billion-dollar investment.

denton-scratch 4y ago
> So user-facing search engines would be forced to rely on independent back-end companies Interesting notion. So, if a state or business wanted to suppress certain information, they'd only have to kneel on the neck of one indexing company, rather than many. Having said that, if the index is certifiably clean, fair and uncensored, and access is free, I can see huge value in a public global web-index.