@simon_brooke hopefully we'll see more rss and forums and personal connections rather than letting big tech be intermediaries in everything. That's their goal, so they can collect data points and collect their rent. The internet was built to route around malfunctioning nodes, and that's not gone away.
@craignicol I am wondering how we architect an open distributed search engine which can't be easily poisoned.
None of us can afford to host a general web index on our own servers, nor serve the traffic that such an index could generate. But if we could each host a shard of that index, and devise a router which somehow directed queries to the correct shard...
Thinking about my recent searches. I want to know the opening hours of the coffee shop, and the pharmacy, so that would be OSM, or some local forum or wiki; I want to know who starred in a particular movie, and Wikipedia (or IMDb before it was bought) could answer that; I'm looking for a book - I've got bookwyrm or bookshop - and hashtags here to find new ones.
We've got into a habit of using one search box for everything.
craignicol
in reply to Robert Kingett • • •Simon Brooke
in reply to craignicol • • •@craignicol I am wondering how we architect an open distributed search engine which can't be easily poisoned.
None of us can afford to host a general web index on our own servers, nor serve the traffic that such an index could generate. But if we could each host a shard of that index, and devise a router which somehow directed queries to the correct shard...
craignicol
in reply to Simon Brooke • • •@simon_brooke do we need 1 search engine or many?
Thinking about my recent searches. I want to know the opening hours of the coffee shop, and the pharmacy, so that would be OSM, or some local forum or wiki; I want to know who starred in a particular movie, and Wikipedia (or IMDb before it was bought) could answer that; I'm looking for a book - I've got bookwyrm or bookshop - and hashtags here to find new ones.
We've got into a habit of using one search box for everything.
Robert Kingett
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