# Web3 Search

By [frank](https://paragraph.com/@frankmartinez) · 2022-01-09

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Thesis: Web3 can’t rely on Web2 search for discoverability

*   What has Web2 done well to enable search, discovery?
    
    *   Common taxonomy; title, URL, description
        
    *   Indexing; sitemaps, URLs
        
    *   SERP; predictable search experience regardless of the URL returned and listed
        
*   What can Web3 do to move in this direction?
    
    *   Publish an EIP like draft that can be discussed and reviewed openly
        
    *   Run experiments in a few large Web3 communities \[likely DAOs\]
        

Discussion

Many of the Web3 projects lack a common taxonomy to describe their projects.  Lacking a common taxonomy \[or language\] then results in every project describing their Web3 project uniquely and mixing this uniqueness as a definition for Web3 itself.

Imagine early in the web era \[circa 1995\] if teams had described their projects as "document viewer" or "links list" or "library catalogue"; which would have lost the meaning of the 'world wide web' and it's network aspects.

And because there's no common taxonomy or language for Web3 it's very hard to construct a common search approach. Yes one could Google for "web3" but those results don't return the essence of what we're trying to find \[people searching for Web3 projects\]. Instead Google search results will only return what has been meta tagged with "web3" for SEO.

We'll continue to use Twitter Spaces conversations to understand what people are looking for \[when they search for Web3\]; which will guide how to define a common taxonomy; a framework for search and discovery. The next Spaces is January 12, 1:30 PM Seattle time.

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*Originally published on [frank](https://paragraph.com/@frankmartinez/web3-search)*