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Re:The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: a... by mlinksva on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:53PM (#19714509)
Could the Internet Archive, specifically https://web.archive.org/ be the basis of an Open Web Index as proposed by the author?

I'm sure there are tons of obstacles to that path, but it also would be far ahead of any new initiative in at least two ways: it already has a huge index and ingestion pipeline, and it is a trusted organization.

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Re:The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: a... by mbay on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:48AM (#19716823)
yes - I worked on this a bit with Mark Graham, the director of the Wayback Machine
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Re:The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: a... by mlinksva on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:31AM (#19719191)
thx - can you say more?
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Re:The Web is missing an essential part of infrastructure: a... by mbay on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:16PM (#19723546)
Not too much really. Its a big interest of Mark's but its still early in the planning stages. I helped him with some preliminary research and gave this brief talk about our work: https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/2018/facilitating-di...
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