Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life
by bikelang on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:40PM
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Random ideas:
- it could work like the Kagi smallweb. people submit sites and you can’t submit your own until you submit (and have accepted) enough of others
- I’m also envisioning a parallel world where the big tech monopolies next existed. Maybe there could be crawler/indexer companies whose product was the stream of new content. Then you as a specialist search engine could consume the stream to build your own custom index and weights
Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life
by Aldipower on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:40PM
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This exists and is called a meta search engine.
For example like MetaGer, which was extremely famous 20 years ago in Germany.
https://metager.org/
Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life
by syncsynchalt on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:50PM
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> a search engine for search engines…
Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler
Also, how would a search engine for recipes work? How does THAT search engine find when a new recipe site is created? It would be to scrape the whole internet just to find all the recipe sites….