Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#1

Post by thesunkid » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 7:52 AM UTC

There are some interesting discussions going on here: https://twitter.com/RichardSocher/status/1488552221532905479

Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#2

Post by raxxorrax » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:02 AM UTC

What 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?

#3

Post by Hard_Space » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:07 AM UTC

Complete discounting of geo-IP on request. Not currently possible:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386

Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#4

Post by peakaboo » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:23 AM UTC

Umm 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?

#5

Post by __d » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:25 AM UTC

Privacy worked for me -- DDG for several years now.

Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#6

Post by johncoltrane » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:28 AM UTC

Google shutting down their search business.

Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#7

Post by ssss11 » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:38 AM UTC

Not filling the top hits with shopping links?

Re: Ask HN: Which feature would make you switch away from Google search?

#8

Post by thesunkid » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:43 AM UTC

Hard_Space wrote: post #3

Complete 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?

#9

Post by dijit » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:45 AM UTC

thesunkid wrote: post #8

Hard_Space wrote: post #3

Complete 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?

#10

Post by alexmingoia » Wed, Feb 02, 2022, 8:55 AM UTC

User 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.