The world needs a non-profit search engine
daoudclarke.net
The world needs a non-profit search engine
1–10 of 396 posts
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#2> The technology for organizing the world’s knowledge should be owned by everyone.
This is what really nails it for me.
There's far too much black box in pretty much every major search engine out there. Maybe it's by design "so that people can't game it". Even so, it's not working very well.
I'm excited for the next 10 years to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's gonna give at some point.
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#3> The technology for organizing the world’s knowledge should be owned by everyone. This is what really nails it for me. There's far too much black box in pretty much every major search engine out there. Maybe it's by design "so that people can't game it". Even so, it's not working very well. I'm excited for the next 10 years to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's…
Why though? 99.9% of people don’t care, and the internet (Facebook, instagram, TikTok, YouTube, gmail, the occasional Wikipedia) work fine for them.
The overwhelming vast majority of people just don’t care about the internet outside those major few silos, so as far as “humanity” is concerned the internet is working as intended.
It pisses me off what’s become of the internet, but I don’t personally see it changing.
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#4another thing you could offer is really nice clean themes. I've paid for more than one app in my time JUST to get dark mode lol.
obviously good search trump's the dark mode tho.
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#5> The technology for organizing the world’s knowledge should be owned by everyone. This is what really nails it for me. There's far too much black box in pretty much every major search engine out there. Maybe it's by design "so that people can't game it". Even so, it's not working very well. I'm excited for the next 10 years to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's…
Why though? 99.9% of people don’t care, and the internet (Facebook, instagram, TikTok, YouTube, gmail, the occasional Wikipedia) work fine for them. The overwhelming vast majority of people just don’t care about the internet outside those major few silos, so as far as “humanity” is concerned the internet is working as intended. It pisses me off what’s become of the internet, but I don’t personally see it changing.
This attitude is exactly why things won't change. .1% of the world is still 7 million people.
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#6I use duck duck go. Recently someone showed me their screen where they were using google to do a search. I was absolutely aghast. The last time I used google when you searched for something you saw a simple text list of sites (which is how DDG still works). Instead the google results were… a disaster. You had to scroll through some much garbage before finding actual search results - a list of sites. It was like google was saying, “here, look at all this trash instead of clicking a link and going to a different site”. When did google become so bad?
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#7I use duck duck go. Recently someone showed me their screen where they were using google to do a search. I was absolutely aghast. The last time I used google when you searched for something you saw a simple text list of sites (which is how DDG still works). Instead the google results were… a disaster. You had to scroll through some much garbage before finding actual search results - a list of sites. It was like googl…
ads. SEO.
i have a guy in digital marketing tell me that his friend does SEO and he does wonders with obscure keywords and shit. that friend is a freelancer and earns a good payday.
When you want to insert your brand in every fucking imaginative keyword as opposed to people "searching for something",
why does internet advertising revolve around everyone assuming every person googling something "WANTS TO BUY SOMETHING"?
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#8YaCy?
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#9I totally like the idea but I dare to doubt that this would solve the SEO problem. Website owners who are participating in those notorious affiliate programs or earn money with ads will still use the search engine to drag people onto their generic websites, using methodolgies to fit the search engines ranking mechanisms, no matter if they are public or not.
SEO and all it's results seem to be immanent to the system.
Re: The world needs a non-profit search engine
#10> The technology for organizing the world’s knowledge should be owned by everyone. This is what really nails it for me. There's far too much black box in pretty much every major search engine out there. Maybe it's by design "so that people can't game it". Even so, it's not working very well. I'm excited for the next 10 years to see what we (humans) come up with to solve the state of the internet, because something's…
Why though? 99.9% of people don’t care, and the internet (Facebook, instagram, TikTok, YouTube, gmail, the occasional Wikipedia) work fine for them. The overwhelming vast majority of people just don’t care about the internet outside those major few silos, so as far as “humanity” is concerned the internet is working as intended. It pisses me off what’s become of the internet, but I don’t personally see it changing.
I guess it’s a good thing 99% of people don’t run the world. If products were dictated by the majority we wouldn’t have macOS, nor even iOS which is technically a minority by raw users. Obviously some users use more intensely than others, which is why catering to power users is a totally viable and legit strategy.