[cookiengineer]

Due to how Google forgets everything from a year ago, I'd argue that this space is ripe for disruption. Discoverability is now even worse due to too much corporate blog spam, with either stolen content or LLM generated content that makes no sense but still leads to better SEO rankings.

If searx wouldn't be so overengineered and if people had an easy way to integrate bookmarks into their search engines/linklists, I think this could have lots of potential. Maybe RSS or the new federation protocols might be a nice base for this.

[bruce511]

The space may be ripe for disruption. But how will that lead to people hosting their own servers?

In other words, how do you see this playing out? Replacing one search engine with another? Funded by not-ads?

[cookiengineer]

I think this is untapped potential of peer to peer networking, where your (subscribed) social circles reflect discoverability of content. Funding for maintenance and development should be seen as operational costs of the network, not as a startup exit strategy.