[sebmellen]

Great question! Search is (I believe) a second-order problem. Once permissionless publishing is solved, extensions can be built onto the core protocol.

In my opinion, indexing and ranking services work much better as ancillary services. The bundling of indexing and ranking with core protocol features is one of my main contentions with the Coinbase-backed "Research Hub" project/company (https://researchhub.org).

If you think about it, journals are also important services

Also, git repo link needs to be updated, and there's nothing there right now really, but https://github.com/scipubapp is the right link!