While people are starting to understand the importance of privacy it is a major hurdle to get them to select a different search engine.
Search engines eat resources like crazy, so operating costs are non-negligible.
Some sites (including e.g. github) use a whitelist in robots.txt, blocking new crawlers.
The amount of spam, link-farms, referrer-linking, etc. is beyond your worst nightmare.
Returning good results takes a long time to fine-tune.
Monetizing is nearly impossible because advertising networks want to know everything about the users, going against privacy concerns.
Buying search results from other search engines is impossible until you have least x million searches/month. Getting x million searches/month is impossible unless you buy search results from other search engines (or sink a lot of cash into making it yourself).
So what do you soylentils think can be done to increase privacy for ordinary users, search-engine-wise ?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @06:00PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday November 21 2018, @06:00PM (#764850)
At this point the only real architectures that make sense for data that is expected to be free from governmental intrusion is p2p storage. Probably something like torrent, with the records authenticated via blockchain to prevent people from hijacking the search algo or creating MITM access points.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @06:00PM
At this point the only real architectures that make sense for data that is expected to be free from governmental intrusion is p2p storage. Probably something like torrent, with the records authenticated via blockchain to prevent people from hijacking the search algo or creating MITM access points.