Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by klingonopera on Sunday January 19, 2020 @01:25PM
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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.
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.