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No more "just google it" and etc. Etc.

Maybe 5 more years until you can get a 100TB hard drive for $100

Then people will setup their own search engines for $1000 and the internet will be beautiful again

No more "just google it" and etc. Etc. Maybe 5 more years until you can get a 100TB hard drive for $100 Then people will setup their own search engines for $1000 and the internet will be beautiful again

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It already is. Have you not heard of ? I haven't used Google for quite a while now and almost forgot about them till you reminded me with this post.

Godspeed.

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Why are you calling me a nigger!? Don't you know it's short for negro, meaning black!? Do I look black to you?! I'm like the whitest white there is. I bet you're the nigger!

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Hardly. There's already plenty of alternate search engines out there, people mostly don't use them.

The real problem is how the internet is centralised. Decentralised storage and routing will be a game changer.

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One hard drive? I don't think you know how the internet works.

You need thousands of servers searching trillions of documents. The servers would need to be in hundreds of places across the planet.

That's just the search part. The crawling servers will be working 24/7 reading and parsing text.

Modern search engines can parse text from images.

This is just an extreme top view. So much shit goes into read and crawling websites.

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There are solutions to these problems using software like . One thing I like about yacy is when you find something you might want to get back to you can have yacy index the page. It's better than creating a whole bunch of bookmarks you might never use.

Modern search engines can parse text from images.

I'm not sure that is such a big deal. I think the OP was more trying to get around (((google))) censorship. These days political topics such as the covid hoax cannot be searched on google. I really used to like filtering a search based on time span (ie find a news article about covid vaccine deaths in january), but that doesn't work anymore. Unfortunately, I've found google is still pretty dominant for finding a specific error message with a specific platform/version.