The world needs more search engines • Hacker News Board

Re: The world needs more search engines

#31

Post by adamnemecek » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

If someone wants to build a better search engine, start with a better code search and then expand to other areas. Github search is so bad.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#32

Post by DeonPenny » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

No it does not. Google is one of the few things that need only need one of.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#33

Post by streetcat1 » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

TKWasRight wrote: post #19

streetcat1 wrote: post #6

So let's say that google fall and you become the new king. Will you allow another competitor in?

Yes.

why?

Don't you have fiduciary duty for the owners of the company to maximize profits? Why do you want competition?

Re: The world needs more search engines

#34

Post by shadowgovt » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

gfawke5 wrote: post #2

> “What has Google ever done for us?”. They have done an awful lot for society, for the web and probably saved it a few times a long time ago. But it is time to also see them as the empire they have become. And empires must fall.

They were definitely involved in several precedent setting legal decisions, such as the settlement that allowed for scanning of printed works.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#35

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

tanilama wrote: post #8

Nah, two or more search engines all being the product of US big techs won't solve the problem. EU should have its own search engine. They should subsidize this effort and have Google pay for it.

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Re: The world needs more search engines

#36

Post by shadowgovt » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #31

If someone wants to build a better search engine, start with a better code search and then expand to other areas. Github search is so bad.

Improved online code search and indexing feels like a very untapped market.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#37

Post by lostlogin » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:05 PM UTC

shadowgovt wrote: post #24

mylons wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because they’re often brittle and create closed systems

This feels like tautological reasoning. Brittle empires fall. The Chinese empire has a history (including mutations to its government) spanning thousands of years.

And yet it fell.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#38

Post by LaGrange » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

Hackbraten wrote: post #4

Thanks but no thanks. I don’t trust a browser nor a search engine if an ad imperium paid for it and gives it away for free. Does the Cliqz browser still disallow plugins, such as ad blockers?

> Thanks but no thanks.

Lol, yeah. The HN headline is like "hell yeah, break up and/or nationalise Google/Alphabet," but the link is "get our product please think of us poor little oppressed advertising agencies" and, uh, no.

Re: The world needs more search engines

#39

Post by Craighead » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:06 PM UTC

streetcat1 wrote: post #6

So let's say that google fall and you become the new king. Will you allow another competitor in?

"All empires must fall because I deserve to be the new emperor"

Re: The world needs more search engines

#40

Post by shishy » Sun, Dec 01, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

streetcat1 wrote: post #33

TKWasRight wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes.

why? Don't you have fiduciary duty for the owners of the company to maximize profits? Why do you want competition?

Lol, he's just saying that now. Everyone says that kind of stuff when they're not at the top. Then they get there and fully realize their constraints, and it dies down.