285 sats \ 4 replies \ @MaxAWebster OP 8 Sep 2022 \ parent \ on: How to Disrupt Google bitcoin
I love this initial roadmap! If anyone is interested in experimenting with it please, let me know :)
My hunch is that roughly 1% of tipping users should be enough to generate signal. It will likely be a higher % if there are rewards beyond pure altruism.
I think you can generate user rewards via other income streams - e.g. a jobs board like Stacker News'. Or maybe a premium subscription with additional privacy or enterprise features? Or maybe tied to another revenue generating biz like @TheBTCManual described with Ahrefs and Yep.com?
And yes the trust model piece needs a lot of experimentation. Perhaps it's established with LSATs, DIDs, or could maybe even be tied into Nostr as someone mentioned to me this morning. Lots to explore there...
And why not make the whole thing community-based. Users could, for a certain cost, submit search results for certain search queries. Those would then be displayed to future users of the search engine. The users who submitted the search result could then be rewarded when someone clicks their search result or upvotes it. Needs thought how to make the whole thing sybil resistant though.
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I'm definitely interested. No idea how you'd bootstrap a search engine though.
You could also pay sats for certain keywords and could buy the top search result that way (similar to ads) as another way to generate user rewards.
Check out "Presearch", they did something similar - just unfortunately with their own shitcoin.
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Thanks for heads up!! Lmk if you start experimenting :)
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Maybe a hybrid of a page rank search engine and stacker.news? Each page (or domain) has paid upvotes and a discussion attached? If done at the level of domains it's easier to centralize upvotes, regardless of the search query, than at the page level
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