New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is this the best way to build Google alternative?

Ask HN: Is this the best way to build Google alternative?
3 by blindprogrammer | 1 comments on Hacker News.
The website would be an open-sourced version of Google search, with sections for tech sites, news sites, forums, finance sites, and so forth, similar to Craigslist. The site will be website-only, with no apps and no boosted JavaScript, using only the bare minimum. The website will be run on donations like Wikipedia, and the links will be edited by users. If a certain website is full of spam and low-quality content, users will downvote it. When the vote reaches a certain threshold, that link will be delisted, similar to the stock market. We will call this site "The Great Filter" or "The Open Source Search Engine." There will be no venture capitalists, no shady algorithms; everything will be transparent, and the filtering will be entirely done by users. Unlike videos, which take a lot of bandwidth, this site will be all text and links, which is relatively cheap to host. What major pitfalls am I overlooking here? One problem I can foresee is shady companies either hiring or bribing one of the editors or the majority of the editors. In that case, how does Wikipedia solve this problem when some countries want specific viewpoints to be represented on Wikipedia? What do you think of this?

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