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How hard is it really to have your own webcrawlers and index? (lemmy.world)
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With the frustrations from using the usual search engines growing I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

It seems we've poisoned the well by allowing the proliferation of advertising interests to dominate the web.

Like how hard would it be to make your own non-commercial index?

Only human made sites that aren't related to buying, selling, marketing, etc.

Could that be a federated open-source project?

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[–] 5 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I think you said "blockchain" when you really meant "distributed hash table."

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    I shouldn't have said anything at all because now people much smarter than me are going down a rabbit hole instead the main gist I was trying to convey. 😵‍💫

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Yes, you should have commented what you did, because [eventually] someone gave you an explanation of why what you thought isn't as good as you thought it was. Also... Why be "smart" and "interesting" when you can be a collection of 300 tangential rabbit hole topics in a trench coat?

    Me though? I chose to be a library of sick references in a hunched human form.

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