Comment by gremlinsinc

I wonder if a blockchain/bittorrent decentralized option could exist to replace google.

most people don't have billions lying around to compete, but you could reward people who rented out space for the indexing data, and have advertisements baked in that could maybe still use some retargeting but without tracking any personally identifiable data about a person.

Nodes could double as ai/cpu processing for algorithms related to search and storage. Computation and storage amounts could have their own payout per action, or per time on storage.

Most people have their computers on all the time anyways, so if they're working in the background for them to earn some side income, while helping create a better internet.

Would need some centralization I'd imagine though, I think the problem with de-centralization is the goal is ALL or nothing.

Like one or two big servers that maybe tie everything to the rest, and push 'updates' on algorithms, contracts,etc... to end users. Maybe a segregation index, knowing all airplane related searches are indexed on cluster c which has nodes 1-8, so you know where to go to get the info being searched.

I'm a mainly full-stack but 'dumb' developer, not an algorithms wiz, mostly focused on crud apps. But this would be fun to build.