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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by bsanr2 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:54AM (#22092378)
In the interests of not causing a crisis when Top Level Trust Domain endorses the wrong site and the algorithm goes, "Uh uh," (or the endorsement is falsely labeled spam by malicious actors, or whatever), maybe the effect decreases the closer you are to that top level.

But that's hierarchical in a very un-web-y way... Hm.

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by klingonopera on Sunday January 19, 2020 @01:25PM (#22092942)
The internet is still kind of a hierarchy though, "changing" "ownership" from the government DARPA to the non-profit ICANN.

And that has worked... quite fine. I have no objections (maybe they're a bit too liberal with the new TLDs).

Most of the stuff that makes the hierarchies seem bad are actually faults of for-profit organizations (or other unsuited people/entities) being at the top, and not just that someone is at the top per se. In fact, in my experience, and contrary to popular expectation, when a hierarchy works well, an outsider shouldn't actually be able to immediately recognize it as such.

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