Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant?
Everyone has missed the most important aspect of search engines, from the point of view of their core function of information retrieval: they&#x27;re the internet equivalent of a library index.<p>Either you find a way to make information findable in a library without an index (how?!?) or you find a novel way to make a neutral search engine - one that provides as much value as Google but whose costs are paid in a different way, so that it does not have Google&#x27;s incentives.