In order to compete with other players in the social networks and messengers arena a powerful search engine is a must, especially in the era of AI. Reddit has a very good search engine, Telegram as well, Google made a living on it back in time etc
This is a simple idea but I had never thought about it until now, so maybe some people may benefit from it:
I always thought NIP-50 (search) was a hackish solution to an insurmountable problem, that of "global search". In order to search for something one must be like Google, one must index the entire network, it's centralizing and so on. And because of that it made little sense for normal relays to implement such a thing.
I just now realized, after using nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc's https://search.dergigi.com/ many times, that the majority of searches are scoped by author, therefore it makes total sense for a client to query the author's outbox relays and send search queries to them directly instead of to some nameless global search engine -- which means that it makes total sense for small relays, personal relays, and random outbox relays of any kind to support search REQs.
Discussion
No replies yet.