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The kitty is sort of out of the bag with the original page rank algorithm, right? I mean wasn't it partially funded by the government. I don't see why a free an
by euroclydon 17y ago
The kitty is sort of out of the bag with the original page rank algorithm, right? I mean wasn't it partially funded by the government. I don't see why a free and open sourced search engine can't emerge to compete with Google on pure search. Now that they are a public corporation, there will be a relentless drive toward growth, to the detriment of most of their casual customers.
- dmoney 17y agoHere's an idea for an open source search engine: If you could make the search index small enough, only the crawler would have to be hosted. The actual search engine would run on each user's machine and download the diffs to the index regularly, and big brother would never see your queries. This might be a pipe dream, as modern search indexes are probably much larger than the plaintext of the whole of the web. Maybe it could be divided by subject.. I guess that would have the same privacy problem: the server would see which subjects you were requesting. Maybe you could download the whole thing and only decompress locally the subjects and languages you wanted.