Post #1059143
2026-02-11 18:28 UTC
@corbet i'll be giving a workshop on "digital sovereignty, federation and mesh networks" and i realized that one of the alternatives to "google" i need to suggest is not only, say, Kagi or Qwant, but mostly Wikipedia and "your public library", because about a large majority of what people search for can be answered by studying there... it's more work than asking a LLM or SEO crap, but it's more reliable, makes you smarter, and it will be more likely to survive peak oil and the AI bubble crash
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@Anarcat@kolektiva.social 2026-02-12 15:27
@corbet@social.kernel.org i just had another thought on this: i think search engines are dead. they were dying even before AI slop started hitting harder, SEO is a class attack against the founding principles of Page Rank that made search so good back then. instead, perhaps what we need to build is an open, "allow-list", topic-specific search engine, one that would index all sites (like LWN, Wikipedia, and so on) *and what they link to*... perhaps we could find good contents there!