[atty]

Proof of work to rank pages? That sounds like the worst idea I’ve ever heard. I’m no fan of Google injecting ads into the top spots of their results but at least you can get to the “real” results by just scrolling down. With this paradigm, every link becomes paid “ad”, and the ranking is completely dominated by companies and individuals with big pockets, not any objective or even subjective measure of the quality. And they’re all ads paid for by wasting energy.