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I think the utility of generic search engines is coming to an end. Services like Google, Bing and DDG are numbered in usefulness. Instead, I am guessing (maybe hoping) that we see a return of the moderated directories, like Yahoo or DMOZ of old. A 2.0 spin on these directories, with lessons learned from all the years. Imagine that you just go to StackOverflow and search there directly for your answer. Want a funny la…
Thanks to this cursed god forsaken parasite "Pinterest" I just completely stopped using google's image search option. I'm using bing/ddg now and it feels soooo good compared to how awful google search experience became
What’s up with all the “What’s up with Google?” Ask HNs? Yeah, I know this violates the policies, but sheesh…
Polite meta-commentary doesn't violate policy, the rules only apply to jerks.
To answer the question, people wouldn't be complaining on HN about Google Search multiple times per day if they could still find what they were searching for on Google. Search has been a revolutionary world changing product for two decades, and now it's completely stopped working for complex queries. Something is up with Google. Something big is up with Google.
I stopped using Google search (and most of their services) about three years ago. I used DDG for a while, but I was not convinced. Bing is average, not as good as Google once was, far from it in fact, but more relevant than the duck and less annoying than Google. But yeah, search is in a bad state.
Its because AI like GPT-3 which can't fool a human, is extremely good at fooling a search engine and now we've effectively lost good search results to spam.
But techbros put trust in the algorithm because they knew best...
I think the utility of generic search engines is coming to an end. Services like Google, Bing and DDG are numbered in usefulness. Instead, I am guessing (maybe hoping) that we see a return of the moderated directories, like Yahoo or DMOZ of old. A 2.0 spin on these directories, with lessons learned from all the years. Imagine that you just go to StackOverflow and search there directly for your answer. Want a funny la…
You should try Neeva[0], made by ex-Google Search folks. [0]: https://neeva.com/p/signup?o=s&c=c3af6jnfmc2dehs8tq5g
Ugh, that triggers me hard. I haven't lived in Germany nor Sweden for ~7 years now and Google never really figured out (despite me telling it so) that I don't need gmaps results in Stockholm and Berlin, and that yes, all my g products should be showing the English UI.
If these folks are ex-google they might consider not doing shit like this in the first place.
Try Kagi.com while its in free beta, and see if you like it.
The only issue I have (and reported in their feedback form) is that it sometimes decides to log me out 3 times in an hour, so their session management could be better. But the results are great, with a clean UI and no BS. Definitely sth I'd pay a (small, but nonzero) amount for. Like 5 bucks or so a month.