Manual entries into the URL database.

Sammysupport commented 3 months ago

Search engines have narrowed to just a few global players like Google, Bing, and Yandex. Google's censorship is already visible on Yandex as it sorts new URLs out, until Yandex is doing it as well.

A few days ago ChatGPT-Search launched (it might has importance like the chrome founding), and in a few months, Bing and Gemini AI will shift us from keyword searches to specific questions, to which AI instantly presents elaborated articles as answers.

Wikipedia editors are becoming obsolete as articles are created live and instantly in any language.

If one of the three main players censors a keyword or a topic, that's it. Is this a dystopia when the educational personnel denies the answer? It is like all books in one place ready to burn? We guess that's why each school and city should have a library. Local instances are the gatekeepers of the future.

We see decentralized storage of web indexes and URLs is now growing in importance. Some countries support already ideas in this regard: https://openwebsearch.eu/

At the same time, creating blog news requires complex infrastructure, as does adding an URL to Spot-On (e.g. setting up feed aggregators on a website).

To simplify, the following streamlined process is probably helpful ( - so it is not an enhancement request for more library-specific or PDF-specific DB-additions).

Spot-On could provide a tab or button-pop-up-window for the manual entry into the URL database of:

URL (if needed or available),
Title,
and Newstext (in plaintext or richtext format, not html).

(To have the data indexed by keywords, the 3-lines-form could be also in a sub-tab of the RSS Tool).

That´s an idea for URLs and News Search. Many thanks.