We Need Viable Search Engine Competition

Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by CombAce on Saturday January 04, 2014 @12:31PM (#7011904)

or: We need an inclusionist wikipedia - where every possible search term starts with an empty page/any possible search term would have an entry, even if it's just for redirecting a spelling mistake. Eventually every search term would grow its own little community of experts. Unfortunately, as pg said, "Deletionists rule Wikipedia."

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Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by examsheart on Saturday January 04, 2014 @01:16PM (#7012155)

Appreciate the lateral thinking. Several issues related to evil SEO-like behavior would need to be addressed as well:

* Blow away my competitor's links on the topic I'm related to

* Always put my links at the top on my topic page

* Sneak my link into other pages not directly related to my topic (viagra spam on comp.lang.*)

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Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by mrfusion on Saturday January 04, 2014 @01:52PM (#7012340)

That's a really smart idea. I wonder how you'd get a list of search queries to launch it.

Maybe you could require a tiny amount of bitcoin to edit a page to prevent spammers?

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Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by weinzierl on Saturday January 04, 2014 @03:08PM (#7012663)

That's what Wikia[1] initially tried to do.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia

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Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by pcloadletter on Saturday January 04, 2014 @02:44PM (#7012555)

The growth would be exponential. Every day Google sees 15% of queries that have never been seen before. Every single day.

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