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Google search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirely
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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2024
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I'm no expert, but dreaming here - is there a FOSS search engine that can be run in a distributed way by a community? I would happily switch to that if there was.
No, but we can build it. It's called a Directory. This is how Yahoo! worked before it got enshittified and eventually replaced by Google search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo! 's first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo!
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Dmoz was great.