Decentralised Web Indexes are an important avenue if we truly want to ever break free from the private indexes used and dominated by Google and chatbots that in-transparently return results based on their opaque preferences.
Those indexes cost an incredible amount of money to build, maintain and keep improving. It’s worth it for these orgs as these are considered a competitive edge and the “secret sauce” of these orgs.
I find it hard to believe the same amount of investment will be made into a decentralized web index, precisely for the reason that it cannot be monetized.
I find it hard to believe the same amount of investment will be made into a decentralized web index, precisely for the reason that it cannot be monetized.