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I hate to keep beating on this drum but is _anyone_ working on a search engine yet that filters out anything with ads and/or a tracker? The root cause of the p
by orangesite 3y ago
I hate to keep beating on this drum but is _anyone_ working on a search engine yet that filters out anything with ads and/or a tracker?
The root cause of the problem is content monetization so please let's just stop indexing anything that tries to monetize content and/or track readers.
And I'll say this for all the overly-capitalistic folk on here: the amount of money I'm willing to pay for access to a search engine like this has been going up every month since 2002 -- something that the other paid search engines clearly fail to understand.
- sureglymop 3y agoRegarding the last sentence: The problem is that capitalism knows no limits. Sure, it would be nice to pay a monthly subscription for genuinely good and desirable content/search results... But what if the CEO of the service provider needs another $5m bonus? What if the stock needs to go up so that the shareholder gamblers can get more dividend paid? What if all of a sudden the service gets bought out? The truth is that what you are seeking is more likely to come from someone who is just passionate about it with not that much motivation based on profit. That doesn't mean that this entity or person can't be financially supported but it gets problematic when profit is the _main_ incentive. For a good example of an interesting search engine built by a single guy, see Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/
- mrkramer 3y agoThat would solve some problems but not all; spam sites would be filtered out but also sites with good quality information that monetize with ads would also be filtered out. There is no silver bullet(one way solves all) for SEO/ad/affiliate spam.