What if we had more specialized search engines? There should be a recipe aggregator that searches for recipes and nothing else, and prioritizes high value recipe sites.

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cortesoft 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Then we would need a search engine for search engines…

Also, how would a search engine for recipes work? How does THAT search engine find when a new recipe site is created? It would be to scrape the whole internet just to find all the recipe sites….

	▲	bikelang 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Random ideas: - it could work like the Kagi smallweb. people submit sites and you can’t submit your own until you submit (and have accepted) enough of others - I’m also envisioning a parallel world where the big tech monopolies next existed. Maybe there could be crawler/indexer companies whose product was the stream of new content. Then you as a specialist search engine could consume the stream to build your own custom index and weights
	▲	Aldipower 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This exists and is called a meta search engine. For example like MetaGer, which was extremely famous 20 years ago in Germany. https://metager.org/

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hn_acc1 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me a bit of how yahoo got started: categories, sub-categories, etc..

Of course, back then they had thousands of websites to categorize not billions.