The world needs more search engines

I wouldn't be surprised if it is the primary source of their search results either.

Developing a new search engine from scratch that can compete with Google is almost impossible unless you are at the scale of Microsoft.

It is much easier to white label an existing search engine so you can have good search results on day one.

Lots of your posts I can agree with, you're a reasonable individual. so why the huge blind spot when it comes to this topic?

When they colluded to force wages down, you defended them. There is absolutely no need for you to. And yet I know you will not stop even after this comment to you.

For what purpose have you written this abolute garbage bag of neoliberal-strung-together-with-gum-and-baling wire comment?

Your post has far too many platitudes and half-ideas and gobbledeygook. "anti success rhetoric"? how bout I classify your post in 3 words too? "Corporate apologist rhetoric"

not a single. sentence. has merit. it reads like ad copy or a poorly programmed bot.

You even put air quotes on "freedom" I mean, come. ON.

I try not to make too big a habit of calling people out, because that leads to poor commenting quality on my end but you sir have put a really, really bad comment on display.

I invite others to read each sentence, one by one, and see if they even follow.

Do they?

They do not.

They read like someone who wants to defend google and just threw up a bunch of worthless words in order to confuse.

Now I already suspect your reasons, but perhaps you can enlighten me and the others here how I could possibly take your opinion seriously?

A democratic country has an interest in ensuring that our labor and goods markets also remain open, competitive, and democratic in nature. We've made this choice as a country repeatedly throughout our history, and it's time to do it again.

I’m extremely disappointed in the HN discussion here. The blog post is by someone wanting to compete with Google. Great. The entirety of the post makes ZERO compelling arguments about what features, guarantees, or outcomes their product will provide. In the last couple paragraphs, they mention the word privacy - okay but how so? What’s the business model? Why should I trust you?

The blog post is nothing more than an attack on Google (and other tech companies, but that comes later in the article). That’s the only “substance”.

There’s no question that key regulation is missing in the space. But what exactly is Google even doing that is anti consumer and killing competition? What anti trust laws have they broken? Should we identify them or maybe determine what is missing in our legal framework? If the author wants to compete with Google, perhaps they can share that insight. That be productive.

>Google is Cambridge Analytica on steroids.

That’s a pretty damning statement and unproductive. You want to make an emotional argument and have keyboard activists work for YOU instead of sticking to objective facts.

Disappointing this is #1 on the front page. We are turning HN into Reddit.