Sunday, my father-in-law asked me about hashtags. He didn't understand that instaSpam was generating a page for each unique hashtag. He wondered if he could just go to any search engine and see the results...
Imagine if the centralized, corporate web didn't start locking down their creations to force people to go there for the precious ad dollars. There could have been a hashtag search engine that would have tabs for the various services to see the results.