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So should Google be regulated as a public utility? I am leaning towards search being a natural monopoly due to the huge resources required to build an index/alg

So should Google be regulated as a public utility? I am leaning towards search being a natural monopoly due to the huge resources required to build an index/algorithms/etc

3eb7988a1663 2y ago
I have been wondering how hard modern search would be to implement. More and more of the world is getting hidden behind walled gardens denied to search. Reddit, newspapers, Facebook, Twitter, are all locked down or heavily restricted. I am sure there is still a burgeoning small web, but it is increasingly hard to find. Would many consumers notice/care if your search engine only surfaced pages from the top 1000 highest ranked domains? You would actually decrease the amount of SEO garbage you hit from Stackoverflow clones, Amazon listicles, or Grandma's cookie recipe #9381.
- Rodeoclash 2y ago
  We should create non-profit versions of each of the archetype sites that exist. Reddit (forums), Twitter, Search, Email hosting should all have non profit versions ala Wikipedia.
  - Timwi 2y ago
    For Reddit and Twitter there's already Lemmy and Mastodon.
account42 2y ago
> I am leaning towards search being a natural monopoly due to the huge resources required to build an index/algorithms/etc A bigger issue are the network effects - no website can afford to block Google; not so much for your startup search engine.