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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by reaperducer on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:39PM (#22093891)
Create a core protocol at the same level as DNS etc., that web servers can use to offer an index of everything they serve/relay

Isn't that pretty much a site map?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by dredmorbius on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:20PM (#22096042)
A sitemap simply tells you what pages exist, not what's on those pages.

Systems such as lunr.js are closer in spirit to a site-oriented search index, though that's not how they're presently positioned, but instead offer JS-based, client-implemented site search for otherwise static websites.

https://lunrjs.com

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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by TylerE on Sunday January 19, 2020 @11:17PM (#22096256)
How would this help anything? It would make the blackhat SEO even easier, if anything.
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study by dredmorbius on Monday January 20, 2020 @12:06AM (#22096453)
The results could be audited.

Fail an audit, lose your reputation (ranking).

The basic principle of auditing is to randomly sample results. BlackHat SEO tends to rely on volume in ways that would be very difficult to hide from even modest sampling sizes.

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