On 2014-01-02 02:22, realcr wrote:
Some ideas I had regarding searching:
- The web used to be some kind of its own index, back in the old days, where you could get from one webpage to another using links. If you get to think about it, links are not much different than a DHT: Every website has links to some sites that are similar to that site, and maybe to some sites that are a bit different. In order to find something specific you work your way through the links just like you would do in a DHT. The introduction of great search engines eliminated the need to put these kind of links in websites. So that's one solutions, links. Kind of primitive, but I think it used to work.
Search humans, instead of search engines. Human authority instead of AI. As a matter of fact, it still does work.