Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
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Would need human curation to select the best websites in each field.
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Yahoo back in the day with its categories, and later Fazed.net with curated links was a nice time for a while
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Pay to play was the problem there. I had the highest ranking joke page on webcrawler for a stint, but Yahoo wanted $500 to put me on top. My 15 year old self was not interested.
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That’s pretty much what all of the site aggregators were. I ran a couple of communities on yahoo and some other sites. There were also services like Archie, gopher, and wais, and I am pretty sure my Usenet client had some searching on it (it might have been emacs - I can’t remember anymore). I remember when Google debuted on Stanford.edu/google and realized that everything was about to change.
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It worked because the web was much smaller.
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Or AI to rank and filter out the things you need based on public indexing. Preferably there'd be several AI assistants to choose from. Things seem to be moving in that direction anyway.
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The problem is that personalization of search results tends to information bubbles. That is the reason why I prefer DDG over Google.
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While this is true (and a problem with current engines like Google), I could see having a local LLM doing the filtering for you based on your own criteria. Then you could do a wide-open search as needed, or with minimal filtering, etc.
When I'm searching for technical stuff (Android rom, Linux commands/how it works), it would be really helpful to have some really capable filtering mechanisms that have learned.
When I want to find something from a headline, then it needs to be mostly open (well, maybe filtering out The Weekly World News).
But it really needs to be done by my own instance of an LLM/AI, not something controlled elsewhere.
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Ai won't help since it'll be programmed to show only what it's owners want us to see
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With your own customization, done locally.
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Given that the indices are not available locally, it’d be difficult for your own algorithm of any sort, AI or otherwise, to rank items higher/lower than others.
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