Comment on Hister: a private search engine
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
This seems super cool, you can curate your own search index :O
Being able to preview your search results offline is quite neat too!
One question though, how will you solve the issue of “echo chambers”, because from my understanding, it looks like it will only present results that you search for, meaning for some people, you could be stuck with results that only support your view of the world.
I mean it kinda looks like that’s by design currently. It’s an indexer for your corners of the web, not a search aggregator to find new ones.
asciimoo@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Exactly, the echo chamber phenomenon is mostly problematic for “discovery type” searches while Hister is mainly for “recall type” search.
Implementing federated search/index sharing could be a partial solution to this issue in the long run.