Re:Why pay for a search engine
by openrisk on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:35AM
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what do you mean by "the web"? The web is all the people, companies, public sector etc. that are setting up web servers (whether self-hosted, cloud etc. it doesnt matter).
To say that the web is dead means that nobody outside massive social media type sites will still run a server (and SO / github are social media type walled gardens at this point, thats why they get enshittified).
But this development would be absurd as a whole. Mind you search engines as we have come to know them might be dead, but thats of their own making. People need to find / communicate useful, truthful information and sooner or later they will get it.
To say that the web is dead means that nobody outside massive social media type sites will still run a server (and SO / github are social media type walled gardens at this point, thats why they get enshittified).
But this development would be absurd as a whole. Mind you search engines as we have come to know them might be dead, but thats of their own making. People need to find / communicate useful, truthful information and sooner or later they will get it.