@ajsadauskas @degoogle I used to be one of those human editors. I was the editor of Scotland.org from about 1994 to about 1997, back in the days when it was exactly one of those hierarchical web directories – with the intention of indexing every website based in Scotland.
@Fudoshin @DessertStorms the thing that made me cry, when I needed a food bank, was they asked if I had pets and included food for my cats.
There is an awful lot of good in this world.
simon_brooke
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@ajsadauskas @degoogle having said that, the patents on Google's PageRank algorithm have now all expired, and a distributed, co-op operated search engine would now be possible. Yes, there would be trust issues, and you'd need to build fairly sophisticated filters to identify and exclude crap sites, but it might nevertheless be interesting and useful.