On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Lodewijk andré de la porte <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'd like to ask people to wonder what Search Engines really do for us. > Where is the catalog? Where is the cultivated list of good resources? > Well, in Google's case, the list is curated by those doing the linking, but Google is trading richness of metadata for coverage. > > Do search engines provide the same level of guidance to its users that a > written overview can? > No, but they cover far more of the Web than a manually curated index ever could. They can answer questions like "what was that article I read last week on this topic?" and "what other pictures exist of this person?" Nobody's going to be writing written summaries of every single news article and blog post. > Why don't we create a distributed website catalog? It's harder, as > anti-spam is the core feature. But competing with Google seems rather > foolhardy at the moment. > I think this is a good idea. Spam can be handled by just signing all the pages and having signed white and blacklists to create a web of trust/distrust. Proof-of-work could be used when creating new signing identities in order to make the blacklists useful. > Maybe the word catalog isn't right, catalogs are too static and not > discovery targeted at all. > I imagine something as simple as StumbleUpon, just "I like/dislike this", perhaps with tags. One could add a signed inverted index as well to facilitate searching by phrase. > Maybe a Yahoo! answers type of tagging/cataloging would work rather well. > > Anyway: think about it guys! I'm sure there's a better way than "this > keyword is also in this page which links to other good pages"! > Been thinking about it for a while ;-)
