Lighthouse - The Google of the Metaverse

Thanks Max, gotta admit that our onboarding flow wouldn't be as smooth without Privy!! @max_segall1

Thanks @philippe_tremblay !!

@florence_tellier Thank you Florence! Glad you like it 😊

@chrismessina Hey Chris - Jo here, co-founder of Lighthouse. Thanks for your comment! Yeah definitely a bold tagline and obviously Google is super multifaceted as a company so the intent was more to hint at their mission of "organizing the world's information", than doing any universal claim about sophistication and impact. Lighthouse indexes thousands of experiences from many different virtual worlds and unifies them under one roof. It makes finding immersive 3D content closer to traditional search in that you can browse through a bunch of spaces from one access point vs having to enter each ecosystem one by one. I actually searched "Coffee" for you on our portal (https://lighthouse.world/search?...) and you can actually see that creators built coffee related experiences inside The Sandbox, Voxels, Decentraland and Spatial - all different virtual worlds that have little to do with one another. The Spatial one is pretty cool if you want to try it up: https://lighthouse.world/details... Regarding evaluating if search results are "good", it depends on what you mean: quality, functionality, following guidelines (i.e. moderation). There's a bunch of things going into it and it's all stuff we are approaching from different angle. Anyhow thanks for engaging with the post and more than happy to address any follow-up!

@bjjxyz thanks for the response Jo! It actually raises another question... how do creators participate in SEO in the Metaverse?

@chrismessina Another good one, and tbh, we are very unsophisticated / early in optimizing the content we present to users. It's a big focus of ours next year (our CTO was actually leading the ML team in charge of recommendations at an enterprise search company named Coveo before Lighthouse). As our own algos become better and ranking relevant content, then investing in SEO in 2023 for creators will become increasingly relevant. The direct angle for them will be to improve their tags, descriptions, picture quality and overall create richer profiles, just like you have to do on YouTube, Airbnb, etc

@denis_akzam Thanks Denis! Very much appreciated

@benjamin_couture @mark_studholme Thank you Mark! 🙏

Thank you @mathieu_hinse!!

@vincent_cote Thanks Vincent!