Quote from: dkbit98 on June 21, 2024, 11:25:17 AM

Some people say that g00gle also removed a bunch of history and they altered facts many times.

Just like I can no longer use it to find plagiarism. It doesn't show any matches nowadays.

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I think this search would be much slower and not that precise in real life.

"Less precise" is a feature for searching, and that's what Ninjastic can't do: it only shows exact matches. A good search system shows you what you're looking for.

Quote from: PowerGlove on June 21, 2024, 07:34:56 PM

You're completely right about that: Google Search was a much better product 20 years ago... I don't know what has gone wrong with that product team

Priorities must have changed. The founders own 140 billion dollars (each), and the priorities are share holders. Just like their advertising shifted from useful text links to completely overdoing it everywhere.

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Google really did have something special about their ethos and engineering philosophy back in the day

Money changes people, and companies. They would probably not be as big as they are now if they would have remained a friendly company.

Quote from: PowerGlove on June 21, 2024, 07:34:56 PM

On-topic: No offense, but this thread reads like a bunch of first-year nursing students talking about how to do a triple bypass. Grin

I see where this is going: the Mother of all Patches that decentralizes the forum!

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Show me the programmer that estimates they could pull off a task like that, and 999 times out of 1000, I'll show you someone that doesn't really understand the problem.

I can show^* you the programmer (and team), but it comes with a corporate price tag. And that's the problem: it's expensive to create, and can't really be monetized.

^* Not literally though, because of privacy.

Quote from: PowerGlove on June 21, 2024, 11:29:45 PM

But... holy shit is this a tough problem.

That's probably why it doesn't exist yet. And you're only looking at it from a technical perspective. To be useful, it needs moderation to tackle spam.

I'll quote this post here:

Quote from: theymos on December 01, 2023, 02:01:03 PM

I wish that more work was being done on creating decentralized, uncensorable, but also usable forums. I would love nothing more than to be able to shut down bitcointalk.org due to some decentralized solution making it obsolete. Find me a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working on this, and I'll donate to it.

Quote from: nutildah on Today at 02:27:52 AM

Because there's no motivation/incentive for anyone to continually archive the forum, forever. We are currently reliant on the goodwill of TryNinja and LoyceV to properly archive forum posts.

This was (and is) my incentive:

Quote from: LoyceV on July 21, 2019, 05:08:59 PM

Ever wanted to see who's lying when a post has been edited or deleted? I may be able to help!

I can't make any promises on the "forever" part. Well, actually I can: I will most definitely not do this forever Tongue

But I can promise not to abandon it willingly without trying to find someone who takes over if when it comes to that.

Quote from: larry_vw_1955 on Today at 03:07:28 AM

that's why you have to turn it into a blockchain. one where there are incentives for being involved.

Incentives need to be paid by someone.

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i assume they run full nodes. so all 21 of them are storing the entire steem blockchain. i'm sure loyce would do that. Grin

I don't have blocks, but I have sha 256 hashes: anyone can archive them to prove editing later on. Read the posts around the linked one for the discussion on data integrity.