There are some interesting discussions going on here: https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1488552221532905479
Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
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Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#2What quickly comes to mind:
No priority for news sources that are in a direct business relationship, every filter and setting can be modified without creating an account, heavily penalize advertising, no hiding of URLs, not filtering content for political reasons.
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#3Complete discounting of geo-IP on request. Not currently possible:
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#4Umm I switched away years ago to Duckduckgo but currently trying out Kagi which is even better.
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#5Privacy worked for me -- DDG for several years now.
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#6Google shutting down their search business.
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#7Not filling the top hits with shopping links?
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#8Complete discounting of geo-IP on request. Not currently possible: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386
just curious. Are you willing to forgo relevant results when searching for "restaurants near me" to preserve your IP addr?
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#9Complete discounting of geo-IP on request. Not currently possible: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386
just curious. Are you willing to forgo relevant results when searching for "restaurants near me" to preserve your IP addr?
It’s not about IP addr; I live in Sweden but don’t speak much Swedish. Searching for things takes me to Swedish sites.
Quite frustrating honestly.
(Another related thing that’s frustrating is people using my IP to determine language instead of the Accept-Language header my browser sends)
Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?
#10User interface. I'd prefer search results to appear above the fold. A few years ago Google started putting ads and contextual widgets above search results. Sometimes on mobile not a single result makes it onto the screen due to ads and other content appearing first.
I already switched to DuckDuckGo, and I'm happy with it.