With the frustrations from using the usual search engines growing I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.
It seems we’ve poisoned the well by allowing the proliferation of advertising interests to dominate the web.
Like how hard would it be to make your own non-commercial index?
Only human made sites that aren’t related to buying, selling, marketing, etc.
Could that be a federated open-source project?
i think it is fairly easy to get an index.
what is hard is to get the search results of an index somewhat relevant to the user. duckduckgo was struggling with this on its first years.
“only human-made” sites is a tough category as well.