Hi Loup
Someone else said that about links.
Browsing about either knowing where you are (and going) and/or about dealing
with a rough max of 100 items. After that search is necessary.
However, Ted Nelson said a lot in each of the last 5 decades about what kinds
of linking do the most good. (Chase down what he has to say about why one-way
links are not what should be done.) He advocated from the beginning that the
"provenance" of links must be preserved (which also means that you cannot copy
what is being pointed to without also copying its provenance). This allows a
much better way to deal with all manner of usage, embeddings, etc. -- including
both fair use and also various forms of micropayments and subscriptions.
One way to handle this requirement is via protection mechanisms that "real
objects" can supply.
Cheers,
Alan
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> From: Loup Vaillant <l...@loup-vaillant.fr>
>To: fonc@vpri.org
>Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 6:36 AM
>Subject: Re: [fonc] Sorting the WWW mess
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>Martin Baldan wrote:
>> That said, I don't see why you have an issue with search engines and
>> search services. Even on your own machine, searching files with complex
>> properties is far from trivial. When outside, untrusted sources are
>> involved, you need someone to tell you what is relevant, what is not,
>> who is lying, and so on. Google got to dominate that niche for the right
>> reasons, namely, being much better than the competition.
>
>I wasn't clear. Actually, I didn't want to state my opinion. I can't
>find the message, but I (incorrectly?) remembered Alan saying that
>one-way links basically created the need for big search engines. As I
>couldn't imagine an architecture that could do away with centralized
>search engines, I wanted to ask about it.
>
>That said, I do have issues with Big Data search engines: they are
>centralized. That alone gives them more power than I'd like them to
>have. If we could remove the centralization while keeping the good
>stuff (namely, finding things), that would be really cool.
>
>Loup.
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