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Folk search engines
There is little room for randomness in exploring the vast amount of information actually available to us. This is deliberate. Google and others’ stated mission is to reduce this vast complexity. Their less trumpeted goal is to profit from it, at the expense of our own potential for random encounters, and thereby for our own evolution.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
“A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.”