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The Google of the Metaverse
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Lighthouse - The Google of the Metaverse

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Lighthouse is building the open metaverse navigation engine, a unified interface empowering users to search for places, events, friends, creators, and experiences across and within multiple virtual worlds.

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Have LOVED playing with this product - crazy how far it's come since the beta launched a few months ago too! Easy to imagine how this becomes a massive pillar of the future of the internet and thrilled to have been involved from the beginning.
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Thanks Max, gotta admit that our onboarding flow wouldn't be as smooth without Privy!!
Interesting things in the making👀 Congrats to all the team!
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Congrats !! Amazing tool ✨
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Thank you Florence! Glad you like it 😊
Bold tagline! "The Google of the Metaverse" I don't even know what I'd type into such a search engine — or have any idea what I'd expect to find. If I search for "coffee", what should appear in the results? If I search for "Fortnite", will I get to play in a metaverse that's similar to the game? Seems like a different kind of search problem! How do I evaluate if the results are any good?
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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 () 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: 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!
thanks for the response Jo! It actually raises another question... how do creators participate in SEO in the Metaverse?
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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
Lighthouse first product released this week focus on social and discovery. Their "find a friend" feature is great ! Their product roadmap is visionary, yet realistic and focusing on user experience.
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Thanks Denis! Very much appreciated
Great work , and the whole Lighthouse team. This is exactly what the open metaverse needs. More navigation, more openness and more collaboration. And super nice to see some MetaMundo spaces and models listed too.
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Thank you Mark! 🙏
This is great !! Congrats to you and everyone involved Ben
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Thank you !!
Congrats on the lunch! Looks amazing!!!!
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Thanks Vincent!
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