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Why is there still no decentralised search engine that actually works well? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by throwaway284921384@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Serious question, why do we give so much power to these tech firms such as Google, when really the solution is decentralization. We have some solutions for money with bitcoin, but there still doesn't seem to be a viable alternative with a search engine that is decentralized?

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[–] throwaway284921384@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I don't see why we can't just have something like a blockchain based search engine where crypto is given based on how much indexing (crawling) is done. Of course this is just an idea right now. But have an incentive to people to do crawling of it through something like blockchain. This ensures that there won't be any centralization and search result manipulation with things such as psyops (brain washing the population through search results)