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Eventually search will become a decentralized activity (No, not a web3/crypto/coin type decentralization, I am talking about the useful type).

Is there any particular reason why internet search has to have a distorting gatekeeper to the global commons (that pretends playing Maxwell's demon). For chrissake, the stuff being indexed is public.

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>Eventually search will become a decentralized activity (No, not a web3/crypto/coin type decentralization, I am talking about the useful type).

People care about UX not about technology remember that unless people are willing to sacrifice good UX in order to have greater security and privacy. These things are tricky and there is no right formula.

Not all that google indexes is public, primarily paywalls/loginwalls allow google IP's to crawl information unhindered but as users you are not, so a new search engine will have to get to a scale and popular enough for others to open up. Quick example: Google can index many news sites, or LinkedIn profiles for example that a regular user with no account cannot.

Thats true, but probably something that can be tackled later and in any case it would not be a show-stopper for creating a valuable alternative (There are similar thorny related issues around IP e.g. for news sites)

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