There has absolutely not been a better opportunity in this century to build a successful new search engine for the internet. The dominant players are running full speed to make their offerings worse, and that’s after *years* of complaints that Google’s results are decaying.
@anildash It's one of the few problem spaces that tempt me to gather a team to make sw. So far, building machines in my garage has kept me distracted from the fray. *whew*
@anildash Just the other day I was daydreaming about how Glitch could enable the niche-iest of niche search engines by providing a sweet query library and support for an open crawler's index.
@trevorflowers 👀👀👀