People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays - eviltoast
  • SpikesOtherDog@ani.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I know P2P had become a dead buzzword, but what if people dedicated a portion of their computers to assisting an open search engine.

    I would wait 30s for accurate results. It could also piggyback on a search aggregator.

    • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      There used to be an open source search aggregator, don’t remember what it was called

        • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah that looks like it! Why do you say it is useless? I have cloud credits that I could theoretically burn hosting one of these

          • ArcticCircleSystem@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            IIRC its results just aren’t that good? I haven’t tried it, this is just what I’ve heard. Maybe it’s gotten better? ~Cherri