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A Better Federated Search
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this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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I like the webring idea but I would hope finding the right server would be automated, clicking through thousands of servers sounds exhausting.
Really? It wasn't even really even popular when it was popular. Search engines quickly became a better way to find things. webrings were always broken.
webrings were almost always infiltrated by scam artists
The details are in the work, but there is consideration for enabling a preference to automatically select the fastest server.
I've also considered making servers announce load reports, telling other servers how much load they are under, that way a server can be selected via both fastest and least under-load.
This might even be an appropriate use for AI (maybe even running in-browser for privacy). I imagine something that reads your prompt and auto-populates a few rings to search. You review and edit the suggested rings, then click search.