" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."
Most Linux package managers sync the list of all packages they can download. I wonder if some sort of system like that can be used to federate web searching.
So we all just have a copy of the internet and then we can grep for things we are interested in … I’m actually not super against this.
Well perhaps a selection? You don’t need the data set for crotcheting or perl coding if that’s not up your alley.
Once you do that though you end up telling people what you are interested in which goes against the whole purpose in the first place.
The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.