Comment An alternative to Google/Private Search Engines (Score 1) 731
I have an idea. Unfortuantely, I do not know too much about search engine mechanics and how I would go about programming this. But hear me out:
So we're trusting private corporations with information. Private corporations that can have their own adgendas or other influences. Whether or not their connections with BushCorp are true, we have been placing too much trust on one "person," who can very easily abuse that trust.
However, one cannot simply ignore the service we trust them with: without search engines, the internet would be much harder to use for finding useful information.
Peer-2-Peer applications may come in handy. If we relied on a user-driven network instead of one that was privately owned, information would not be restricted. An individual could run spiders which would search for information they are interested in, and would also share any information found with the rest of the network. They could also add links to sites they favor/host, contributing to the network (or possibly spamming it, as my experience with searching gnutella will prove).
So that's my idea. An open-source (to ensure freedom) peer-to-peer search engine.
So we're trusting private corporations with information. Private corporations that can have their own adgendas or other influences. Whether or not their connections with BushCorp are true, we have been placing too much trust on one "person," who can very easily abuse that trust.
However, one cannot simply ignore the service we trust them with: without search engines, the internet would be much harder to use for finding useful information.
Peer-2-Peer applications may come in handy. If we relied on a user-driven network instead of one that was privately owned, information would not be restricted. An individual could run spiders which would search for information they are interested in, and would also share any information found with the rest of the network. They could also add links to sites they favor/host, contributing to the network (or possibly spamming it, as my experience with searching gnutella will prove).
So that's my idea. An open-source (to ensure freedom) peer-to-peer search engine.
