"I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build," the founder of Stract said.

“I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that’s what I am trying to build,” the founder of Stract said.

  • Big P@feddit.ukEnglish
    20·
    9 months ago

    What are the actual reasonable outcomes here:

    1. The search engine becomes successful and requires monetization to pay for the hosting/indexing costs
    2. The search engine does not become successful and the ever increasing cost of indexing the entire internet forces monetization or shut down
    3. You self host your own version, in which case you need to start indexing yourself (see problem #2)
    • immortaly007@feddit.nl
      8·
      9 months ago

      I think what would be interesting is to get everyone who self hosts this do part of the indexing. As in, find some way to split the indexing over self-hosted instances running this search engine. Then make sure “the internet” is divided somewhat reasonably. Kind of what crypto does, but instead producing the indexes instead of nothing.