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a search engine that indexes only the highest quality Any for-profit search engine eventually loses quality as it succumbs to ad spend. It'd require subsidies
by staplers 3y ago
a search engine that indexes only the highest quality
Any for-profit search engine eventually loses quality as it succumbs to ad spend.
It'd require subsidies to remain profit-neutral (skew towards quality). Think ycombinator and HN.
Even a subscription model will eventually skew towards placating the masses with "dumbed down" content.
- wolverine876 3y ago> Even a subscription model will eventually skew towards placating the masses with "dumbed down" content. Accuracy and simplicity are not the same. I can see that most people won't want to read the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's take on Plato. But anyone can read the Associated Press rather than someone's misinfo on the topic. Cut out the latter.
- thfuran 3y agoLet's ban advertising and let the market sort out the price of search with that perverse incentive out of the way.