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Next Proposal
  • The Next Generation Search Engine Proposal
  • Introduction
    • Web Search is Primitive
    • Request for Comments
    • Defining Terms
  • What's Wrong with Web Search?
    • Poor Quality of Search Results
    • Commercial Dominance of the Web
    • Suppression of Better Content
    • Poor Searcher Productivity
    • Lack of Competition
    • Lack of Privacy
  • How We Are Open
    • Radically Open
    • Open Data
    • Open Algorithms
    • Open Finances
  • Your Ownership and Privacy
    • Radical Ownership
    • Private by Default
    • Your Data
  • How We Make Search Better
    • Fixing Stale Results
    • Local First
    • Advanced Features
    • The Trust Network
    • How We Monetize
  • Appendixes
    • Overview
    • Making a Better World
    • Outside Initial Scope
    • History of Web Search
    • The History of Web Search
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  1. How We Are Open

Radically Open

We love open source. To be a consumer of a product/service with no leverage to encourage the producer to improve their offering can leave us feeling helpless and have a real negative effect upon quality of life. Open source provides us with leverage.

Open source provides the ability to forge ahead even when the original producer refuses to do so. If you don't like the way an open source product/service is being offered, you can utilize the existing product to create something even better.

This forces the original producer to either innovate to match/exceed the new offering or watch as their users (for good reason) leave for the better option.

In the next several pages we will discuss specific ways in which we will be radically open which we believe will force us to be accountable to our consumers and thus spur constant innovation, humility, and responsiveness.

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