Perhaps it’s becoming clear that search needs to become a common cooperatively managed infrastructure similar to Wikipedia. That this is in the best interest of everyone but advertisers and spammers.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh
Submitted 8 months ago by FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Bizarroland@kbin.social 8 months ago
Too bad the Mozilla foundation didn't pivot to that instead of whatever the hell they're doing with AI
Damage@feddit.it 8 months ago
They can’t. Google is their main source of income.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Truly. I wonder if ActivityPub could be utilized to create a resilient search engine that shares the cost among federated instances. We already have something like that in Lemmy and Mastodon where federated data can be search from any instance. If the data is pages crawled by some automatic crawler which is then federated across instances which in turn allow to search through it, perhaps it might resemble a search engine. Page ranking beyond text matching could even be done by peoples up/down votes instead of some arbitrary algorithm. Similar to how voting works on StackExchange or Lemmy. 🤔 I’m sure someone is thinking about this.
giacomo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
If it’s any consolation, I haven’t used Google in years and I still haven’t heard of this site.
Ellvix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nice article, cool company
SpeedLimit55@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nothing in that article is a surprise, its almost as bad just looking up general info lately. I have been doing some searching in both google and yandex and often get better results in yandex.
FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
site looks like it’s a reviewer for a niche market
Murdeth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How can I find more of these kind of sites?
3laws@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly, right here, that’s the beauty upside of the fediverse, we are slightly bigger than the general internet bubble and that’s enough to watch content not bound by it, Iyk what I mean.