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Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 7 months ago by prl to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The only way I can imagine this working is by twisting the definition of the words "search engine" enough that you can claim that there aren't search engines, but really there are still, just under a different name.

Search engines aren't actually the "problem" that OP is wanting to address, here, though. He just doesn't like the specific search engines that actually exist right now. What he should really be asking is how a search engine could be implemented that doesn't have the particular flaws that he's bothered by.

[–] elbarto777 16 points 7 months ago

Plus the web is not the whole internet.

You could stick to Gopher.

Or use other search engines. There are hundreds. Hundreds.

Maybe not as useful as the dominant ones, though.