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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by mhoad on Sunday July 10, 2022 @07:59AM (#32043886)
I love how this is a problem that a huge number of people have worked on for around 20 years and have thrown stupid amounts of money at and people just jump in and boldly proclaim that they have the answers that just popped into their mind. Peak HackerNews.
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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by christophilus on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:03AM (#32043912)
I don’t think these ideas just popped into his mind. They’ve been discussed for a long time on HN, and some alternative search engines have started to incorporate them.

It’s worth the experiment.

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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by GekkePrutser on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:04AM (#32043922)
But a company like Google would want supreme control. They're not inclined to rely on a community for anything

Wikipedia shows it can work at scale.

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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by mhoad on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:33AM (#32044114)
Google have actually followed a similar model for like ten years now with like 10,000 temp workers following this 172 manual to essentially as the basis to train a lot of their ranking models.

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterh...

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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by grogers on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:01AM (#32044323)
Gmail's spam filter is basically community trained by people clicking spam/not spam (at least, that was what they said many years ago, it might have silently changed). What's different about search?
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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by permo-w on Sunday July 10, 2022 @10:21AM (#32045019)
spam filter isn't their key flagship aquila product
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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by carvking on Sunday July 10, 2022 @08:29AM (#32044088)
But not my idea - Googles from Brave is something to look into, don't know entirely how it works - but it's in this direction.
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Re:The world needs a non-profit search engine by rrdharan on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:13AM (#32044407)
Goggles
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