these are good points.

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these are good points.

For discovering search capable relays you can use NIP66 for that, we just need more people running monitors to help this bootstrap but there are already quite a few.

For monitizing relays, this is where I think it shows that many search related relays struggled to monetize and then some of them died. I think that it is better for nostr to start with localized search.

Eg, if a client downloads so many events it should also be able to search them. Same for smaller relays, like back in the day when you went to a specific site to search for a specific thing (stackoverflow, wikis, project specific forums).

Building one big search and attempting to offer it for free seems like it will lead to capture based monetization strategies which nostr is better off avoiding.

Mastadon, Discord, these do not lump everything into a global search, but can provide very useful localized search despite this.

So then NIP66 can act as sortof a distributed 'directory' of smaller or specialized searching (or any other kind of relay discovery)

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