• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 months ago

    A search nonprofit. Something like Kagi but nonprofit. Publishing its index on regular basis along with its source code. Wikipedia could perhaps start something like that.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Public Libraries are struggling and looking for relevance in the modern world. Libraries brought us the Dewey Decimal System, and early attempt to “categorize all the world’s information and make it useful,” as was Google’s claimed original goal.

      A coalition of public libraries and data-scientists seems like the path to me. Libraries are already in the business of categorizing and organizing information, sooooooo.