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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.

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...

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?
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