Where was the free and open source distributed search engine?
"oh we cant support any protocol or any other technology! We don't want to be promoting anything! Unless we get paid of course!"
Where was p2p video? Why no BitTorrent? Not to long ago hosting video on a server was crazy expensive but at that time people still visited small websites.
It should have been as simple as:
<video src="magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0b239d7ccff9c46e816ba4f4b3ff813bea3691f5"/>
But in stead we got youtube which is short for: adware, censorship, spying, completely unreliable, a crazy resource hog to the point of not working on hardware older than 5 years.
And then there is privatized law making & privatized law enforcement.
If I put stuff out there from my own computer from the comfort of my house I'm subject to plenty of laws and regulations created by my democratically elected governments.
There are no multibilion robots shooting from the hip, there is no false-positive punishment without dialog. If I break the law the situation is carefully examined, I get fined or even imprisoned. Its not a perfect system but its better than persecution by robot.
The Google constitution (TOS) is something like: We may terminate you at any time without explanation.
That's not someone you want to enter into a relationship with.
Something modeled after YACY should be the default search engine. Its wonderful, you have it crawl the pages you frequent and it finds everything, other users crawl other things, nothing google could ever do.
In stead, if I type "1+1" in the search box you send me to google to solve the problem.