@zdl like a search engine for the web as a whole, not just the fediverse?
It's an interesting idea. Crawling the web with bots for indexing is probably the hardest part, because the amount of data & traffic becomes quite large. I wonder whether operators would have to spend a lot of time overcoming anti-spam measures. Then you overlay some search algorithm over the data you've collected.
Unfortunately I don't see where the "federated" part of the search engine comes in. Perhaps people could split up & share the work of crawling & indexing, forming a sort of distributed internet archive. But search engines don't inherently involve any sort of sharing or communication so I don't know how it could be applicable beyond that.
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