@santiago @damon @aral Haha, I'm a bit busy atm

Jokes aside, I think the fediverse could implement a privacy friendly schema and optimized index pipeline for a fediverse search engine

Biggest challenge will be getting projects on board and working towards a common spec that could enable such a service, and also delegating trust to a shared central entity that would run the flagship instance

Few people are trusted enough to get this done, I'm not volunteering but I will keep this in mind

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Santiago Lema

@dansup @damon @aral What I find interesting in the idea is that for each link you could tag the source user / instance so people could just filter them out. The biggest issue I see with today’s Google results being overrun with generated AI spam is that you can’t get a “source”, like one human who would stand for this content.

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Santiago Lema

@dansup @damon @aral That being said I wonder seriously how much of my daily searches would be satisfied with just a few hundred websites indexed. Some years ago I’d search google and get my StackOverflow results. Now I get a thousand spammy clones first. I just want 2010 back😭

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Santiago Lema

@dansup @damon @aral So maybe my search problems could be solved by a FireFox extension whitelisting sites in search. Not sure what the limit is but google allows several sites in search like:

site:stackoverflow.com OR site:discussions.apple.com SwiftUI tables columns

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