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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by duncanwerner on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:31PM (#27318913)
This looks very much like the old site del.icio.us (which was bought by yahoo and discarded). Don't bother going there but see [wikipedia][1].

The trick there was that it was originally a "personal bookmarking" service, so there was a selfish reason for individual users to submit + curate links. Search got layered on top later.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by zeeshanqureshi on Friday May 28, 2021 @03:16PM (#27319378)
Just read through the features of del.icio.us on wikipedia, you are right about the overlaps.

I suspect that coupling community + search from the start, might result in different outcomes (both positive and negative) as opposed to say just community.

Take reddit for example, it's all about the community, the search is abysmal. But it's fun to imagine what if reddit was mainly about search and the community was a bonus. Surely a balance needs to be struck.

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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by alex_young on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:57PM (#27321908)
Also quite a lot like the original Yahoo right?
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