Thursday, June 4, 2009

Can People Out-Google Google?

Via email: Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow, writing in the Guardian, opines that search engines like Google have altogether too much power to be trusted. He proposes a new open source search system created by people.

"It would have one gigantic advantage over the proprietary search engines: rather than relying on weak "security through obscurity" to fight spammers, creeps and parasites, such a system could exploit the powerful principles of peer review that are the gold standard in all other areas of information security."