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Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
#2If it can build something significantly better, or at least differentiated enough, and it won't be copied - i think you could find your niche or even large scale success.
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#3Build a local search engine for a very focused niche.
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#4Google beat the competition not so much that it has a better search engine but in that it has a much better ad platform and brings in much more revenue per search than Yahoo, Bing, etc.
I would address the money issue first before thinking about how to make a better search for some market.
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#5Take a look at how DuckDuckGo built up their business around privacy first, and leveraging Google when appropriate.
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#6Companies like Algolia which provide a site specific search engine has been doing really well especially with the speed and relevancy where Google currently is not concentrating on.
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#7This is more a feature than a different search engine, but I so so so wish I could de-prioritize blogspam. 300 - 1000 word text-heavy writeups of a couple of facts where a few bullet points, an image, a graph, a map, or a data table would be much much better. Google has been SEO'd to death because of its block-of-text lowest common denominator favoring.
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#8Google beat the competition not so much that it has a better search engine but in that it has a much better ad platform and brings in much more revenue per search than Yahoo, Bing, etc. I would address the money issue first before thinking about how to make a better search for some market.
I disagree with you. Google won because it had and still has a better search and less clutter on the search page.
With a better search experience users came and advertising became a major money maker.
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#9Google has the best search results cause it has the most people using its service. Its models learn every time you click on a result. There's no way to take that on directly. What you need is to find an angle that Google can't easily follow, as with DuckDuckGo and privacy.
Are there areas where Google can't go?
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#10Google beat the competition not so much that it has a better search engine but in that it has a much better ad platform and brings in much more revenue per search than Yahoo, Bing, etc. I would address the money issue first before thinking about how to make a better search for some market.
I think that's incorrect, Google worked mostly because it was a better search engine (crawling the web to find major nodes was a brilliant idea), and because it had a clean design.