cross: https://lemmy.ml/post/233095
Article is in Italian.
Famous privacy blog Le Alternative (!lealternative@lemmy.ml here on Lemmy) was de-indexed from Bing and from all Bing-dependent search engines, including DuckDuckGo. At the moment it is impossible to search for their useful articles and the reason for this de-indexing is unknown. The owner of the blog is still trying to find out the reason for this removal.
I think writing a search engine on top of an existing index is not hard. The more difficult and expensive part is crawling the web.
Yeah crawling the web is the web is definitely the hard bit
I wonder if this is ripe for disruption. Any value in a startup that sells a web index?
I did forget to mention that Brave are now doing Brave search so that could be interesting to see where that goes.