Blockchain is not a good fit for a distributed search engine, since each node needs to store the entire chain. It's possible that some sort of system for using a blockchain based token to incentivize participation in an IPFS like network would help provide a funding model for publishing the index, but that would just be one small component in a decentralized search engine, and not even the most interesting one.
Blockchain is not a good fit for a distributed search engine, since each node needs to store the entire chain. It's possible that some sort of system for using a blockchain based token to incentivize participation in an IPFS like network would help provide a funding model for publishing the index, but that would just be one small component in a decentralized search engine, and not even the most interesting one.