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  • 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. Introduction

Web Search is Primitive

Web search has improved significantly over the past several decades. However, web search is still distressingly inadequate for the needs of humanity. This document outlines our proposal for a next generation web search engine (provisionally "Phoebe") that will significantly reduce the current chasm between what humans need from search and what search provides now.

Some say that Google is unbeatable. That their size and tech makes competition (especially from a small organization) impossible. To an extent, we agree. Competing search engines will die out or be relegated to a niche audience as long as they compete with Google using the same methods and paradigms that Google is utilizing.

We have something significantly different to offer. Please read on.

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