“To build the best search engine do you need to operate the biggest relay?”
Artur and I recently connected about a mutual interest in the search ecosystem around Nostr so we hopped on a call to meet-and-greet and share ideas around this emerging ecosystem. Below I’ve captured some brief notes about topics addressed in the conversation, but the video has the details of the discussion.
If you’re working on nostr search we’d love to hear about your work. We will be having periodic calls to learn and share more together.
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Originally working on SEO
Interested in Nostr
Exploring Search, but also open-minded
Which use cases will take off first, commerce application?
Beefy relays, 3TB of traffic, how to scale?
Just focused on text
Interested to build a business around bitcoin
Nostr may be the premiere use case for bitcoin
3 people working on search
How to filter spam and promote quality
Trustrank variation of Pagerank
Nostr is going to get spammed
Nip-05 verification as a signal of quality
Relay selection and discovery is not solved
Relay side will centralize
On the web 1 search engine and 1 client (Chrome)
Build the best search engine may be decoupled from biggest relays
Jurisdiction-specific relays
AWS analogy - large percentage, but not a monopoly
Zap - lightning payment at the note level?
How a page rank-like system might work in Nostr
Followership and Zap/lightning payments as gold standard for trust/ranking algorithm
It’s the from-to that matter - “anchor text links” is to lightning payment
Twitter search is prob a good enough starting point given overall coverage
Onboarding web users to Nostr - answer basic questions to introduce people to Nostr