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This is how we fight Big Tech monopolies; by reclaiming the information commons that they’ve captured. 
https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search
> Google has built a massive index [20 trillion webpages, 12.5 Petabytes] of the internet that covers close to 100% of the accessible web.
> Since search is a critical but essential resource for all users, the solution we propose is to mandate fair access to the Search Index or to take it a step further, consider treating the Search Index as an “Essential Facility”.
@erlend That "step further" is a really good initiative.
When I watched the documentary "The Youtube effect", I was struck by one of the voices in its closing montage saying something like "Youtube is our cultural commons". And that is only true in the sense that billions of people use a corporately owned platform as such. Their usage is still at the behest of Alphabet.
Free and public access to essential cultural resources, as well as their underlying indexes, should be mandatory.
@erlend Perhaps more importantly than fair access, *inconsequential* access must be enforced: Google cannot be allowed to profit from knowing who is making what queries, and making a query cannot be allowed to influence the future state of the querier.