Google-like searches on Safe Network

Probably won’t happen because the primary goal of the project is to write the protocols to allow social media to have any number of UIs APPs and all use the protocol.

Similar for searching. Have a good read of the replies you got from people because the answers to your questions in your latest post are there.

Basically SAFE turns things on its head as far as searching is concerned.

Data is private unless made available to others and this can be very limited too. So unless the data (incl safe html pages) are made “public” search engines cannot even see them

SAFEsites will use the SAFE_DNS (Distributed Naming System) which also does not allow for crawling.

In SAFE the data is not necessarily a searchable web. In the clear web there is the DNS and registrars to allow crawling of new domains and knowing what domains are out there. SAFE DNS does not allow this.

In other words the search engines need to be given the sites to crawl and then they may only get to crawl small parts of such sites as blogs since the pages could belong to many different people who only allow a closed group to access the pages. Its all owned by the population and not necessarily the web sites owners.

And like decorum project I’d say that a search engine protocol will need to be developed so that different search engine companies can access the shared names of sites and pages that are there to be crawled. Its not something that one company can monopolise because they will need to rely on the public to submit their pages/sites for crawling. And the best way is to have a protocol for this set up. Maybe a MD containing addresses to crawl is then linked into the chain of crawlable site/pages Thus the need for a protocol to define how this is done and most likely one of many simple APPs available to insert this into the list according to the protocol.

Then the search engines can do their magic.

And if you have been listening Google search is becoming very corrupt (by google themselves) and return less useful results month by month. And the latest is that they will not return results for pages over a certain number of years old. So do not look to the likes of google to save SAFE from inaccessibility.

And this is the reason why I say searching on SAFE will have to have a protocol for indexing developed and a whole host of search engines will rise up to suit the needs of different people.

Only if people decide to give up their anonymity and make their data public or give to the likes of a google.

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