You'd still want to be able to retrieve "useful" information which can't be tampered with easily which I think is the biggest issue.
You can't curate manually.. That just doesn't scale. You also can't let just anyone add to the index as they wish or any/every business will just flood the index with their products... There wouldn't be any difference between whitehat/blackhat marketing.
You also need to be able to discover new content when you seek it, based on relevancy and quality of content.
At the end of the day, people won't be storing the index of the net locally, and you also can't realistically query the entire net on demand. That would be an absolutely insane amount of wasted resources.
All comes back to some middleman taking on the responsibility (google,duckduckgo,etc).
Maybe the solution is an organization funded by all governments, completely transparent, where people who wish to can vote on decisions/direction. So non profit? Not driven by marketing?
But since when has government led with innovation and done so at a good pace? Money drives everything... And without a "useful" amount of marketing/ads etc, the whole web wouldn't be as it is.
So yes, you can.. But you won't have access to the same amount of data, as easily, will likely have a harder time finding relevant information (especially if its quite new) without having to parse through a lot of crap.
You can't curate manually.. That just doesn't scale. You also can't let just anyone add to the index as they wish or any/every business will just flood the index with their products... There wouldn't be any difference between whitehat/blackhat marketing.
You also need to be able to discover new content when you seek it, based on relevancy and quality of content.
At the end of the day, people won't be storing the index of the net locally, and you also can't realistically query the entire net on demand. That would be an absolutely insane amount of wasted resources.
All comes back to some middleman taking on the responsibility (google,duckduckgo,etc).
Maybe the solution is an organization funded by all governments, completely transparent, where people who wish to can vote on decisions/direction. So non profit? Not driven by marketing?
But since when has government led with innovation and done so at a good pace? Money drives everything... And without a "useful" amount of marketing/ads etc, the whole web wouldn't be as it is.
So yes, you can.. But you won't have access to the same amount of data, as easily, will likely have a harder time finding relevant information (especially if its quite new) without having to parse through a lot of crap.