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We need a Google successor.
Something non-profit.
The infrastructure to crawl, store, and serve search results to billions of users is phenomenally expensive. A government might fund it (which comes with its own concerns), but a non-profit will struggle to compete.
Federated search is possible but has not gotten a lot of attention yet.
If you're talking about YaCY, apparently that's pretty much useless right now from what I've heard. ~Cherri
There's actually a lot of theory and early work out there on the topic of federated search. While existing search aggregators like Searx and YaCY certainly qualify as federated, search infrastructure built from the ground up with decentralization in mind would look very different.