“WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation in a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies…”

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4 points

We need a federated search engine. Whatever fedia.io runs on but for search.

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How do you build a federated search index?

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Also why? Searxng is a thing. I would argue search wouldn’t need to be federated. Makes sense for social media, web is already connected.

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fr, searxng is the b0ss

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Isn’t searxng just a proxy for google and bing? Not sure how that “increases diversity” or “adds competition” or “improves search results”…

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I don’t know how. How do torrents work?

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Torrent is file sharing. Apples an oranges.

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Can it be AI powered with cryptocurrency backend?

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There’s YaCy, it’s just not good

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Had a look: it’s 20 years and maintained by one single dude. Do you think one dude could compete with google? He needs help, and a lot of it.

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I demand federated breakfast burritos!

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