There’s actually a lot of theory and early work out there on the topic of federated search. While existing search aggregators like Searx and YaCY certainly qualify as federated, search infrastructure built from the ground up with decentralization in mind would look very different. All that to say this isn't necessarily the end of the line.
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If they haven't gotten into this habit in the last 20 years anyways, I don't think the SEO spam was that last straw. That ship has sailed.
People are born everyday. Grandma may have had 20 years to figure it out, but kids these days won't have the opportunity to search the web and find information the way we did.
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Ignorance is bliss, give me some pls
I used to work for Google. Now I pay for Kagi.
For certain questions/information, ChatGPT provides better summary information than standard search engines like Google/Bing
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