Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?

If we were to design a brand new internet for today's world, can we develop it such a way that:

1- Finding information is trivial

2- You don't need services indexing billions of pages to find any relevant document

In our current internet, we need a big brother like Google or Bing to effectively find any relevant information in exchange for sharing with them our search history, browsing habits etc. Can we design a hypothetical alternate internet where search engines are not required?

No

This is what we had in early internet days, directories of links. Early Yahoo was the perfect example of this. You jumped from one site to another, you asked other people, you discovered things by chance. You went straight to a source, instead of reading a post of a summary of a site that after 20 redirections loaded with advertising and tracking gets you to the intended and actually useful destination.

Most web sites then also had a healthy, sometimes surprising link section, that has all but disappeared these days.

i guess if we had a highly regulated and one site for one type of service it would be possible but i would not really want that. you could have a algorithm that would parse your query and send you directly to a site of course it could get it wrong where you may need to refine you query just like now sometimes. of course thats still a search engine but more direct. bookmarks are already a form of web without re-searching.

it sounds like what you really want is a decentralized search engine and anonymous by default as apposed to no search engine.