by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Thursday February 16, 2006 @10:11PM (#14738991)
What we need is another search engine that isn't under the control of any one group. I'm not sure how this would be possible though, but with how these companies have caved in with censorship, we need a search engine that can't be controlled in such a way, like the internet can not be controlled effectively.
I really have no idea how this could be achieved but having the search engines under the control of these corporations has proven bad for the interests of the public, well the Chinese public at the moment, but there is nothing that would make it very difficult for other governments to have their countries search results censored.
There is mozdex which seems to be an open-source (I think it uses java though, so I wouldn't really say it's free-software) search engine project. But it's probably again open to the same form of abuse, being under the control of one entity, I believe.
A lot of pages we visit are pages we already visited in the past, a partial solution would be a Firefox extension that makes you own search engine while you browse.
See the Flock browser: it works really well, faster than FF, and it's still Gecko-based. And it has a search-history feature that's quite nice. http://www.flock.com/ [flock.com]
The problem is you actually do want control of the search engine by one group. The reason for this is that search engines are not about finding a source for information. Search engines are about finding an authoritative source for information. If you just want sites about "skiing", well, there are thirty thousand of those. When you search, you want to pick the ten most important. Which are those? Well, we don't want our search under the control of any one group, so let's solve this democratically. What grou
Another search engine is needed. (Score:4, Insightful)
I really have no idea how this could be achieved but having the search engines under the control of these corporations has proven bad for the interests of the public, well the Chinese public at the moment, but there is nothing that would make it very difficult for other governments to have their countries search results censored.
There is mozdex which seems to be an open-source (I think it uses java though, so I wouldn't really say it's free-software) search engine project. But it's probably again open to the same form of abuse, being under the control of one entity, I believe.
Crawl while you surf (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Crawl while you surf (Score:2, Interesting)
The problem is (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Another search engine is needed. (Score:1)
Check it out.
really.