Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.

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    11 year ago

    My wish would be for a free search engine, not a meta search engine, but it doesn’t seem like there is much interest for that, mainly because it highly demanding in terms of complexity, but most importantly resources to run it.

    I feel like that would be more easily gameable.

    I’m sorry, what does that mean?

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      01 year ago

      If the algorithm is made open source, it’ll likely be even easier for spammers to exploit it to spam SEO crap. ~Nai

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        11 year ago

        I kind of doubt that they would optimize for an underdog in the search engine space, they’d be spending money on something fundamentally unprofitable, also because there’s going to be a high overlap between the users of such an engine and those who would use an ad/content blocker