Replying to Avatar BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish

I think the second half is also key.... it is not only about retrieving and displaying content. Discoverability requires also knowing or informing which relays are requires to access said data. Without already having the relay, a user is entirely blind to the data. Sort of like how you can't ask good questions if you don't already have a baseline knowledge.
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mark tyler 2y ago

Wouldn’t the search algo perform much better if it keeps the notes it has indexed / embedded in local storage?

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nobody 2y ago

Sounds centralized.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

Yeah but there's no reason there can't be multiple search services. The singular service might be centralized but if it is FOSS people can spin up their own or several. It's no more centralized than damas or amythest is centralized.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

It would need too much storage space. It'd have to keep a collection of all notes ever written and that will grow significantly daybby day

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Lau 2y ago

I think the problem of discovery was solved, at least for the most part around 2003. A prompt would be tweakeable to yield the best result. After that commercial interference started to meddle with the results. Ever since, search results have become worse and worse. Nowadays an algorithm is cross referencing your prompt so that you get the most commercial result possible. AI could fix this, but for Nostr I think all we need is that brute force engine that Google developed 20 years ago.