Wednesday, March 25, 2015

[ffotddzj] Notifying another search engine

Suppose you believe Google is currently objectively the best search engine but would like to voluntarily help another search engine, perhaps one making a better and more credible commitment to privacy, improve its results.  Create a browser plugin that records your searches with Google, the Google results, and the link you ended up clicking on, and sends all the data to the second engine.

Malware of course could do this, leading to the ethical dilemma: is malware to bootstrap an engine to break up the Google monopoly justified?

Could Google reverse engineer the plugin and poison the data? Probably need a web of trust.

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