Replacing corporate search engines with anonymous/decentralized search

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Jan 1 15:46:11 PST 2014


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.



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