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Some people try: https://www.mojeek.com/ https://fireball.com/ https://search.brave.com/
No-tracking and independent from the start. Now at 4.6 billion pages with own infrastructure and IP. Went to market in 2020 with contextual ads and API. Self-disclosure: CEO
Why don't you want personalized results? If I search for "subaru service" I want to find Austin Subaru, not Thorp Subaru in Cape Town.
Sure, it feels great when the engine guesses something like that correctly -- but it comes out worse overall for the plentiful cases where you have to try to compensate for it guessing wrong.
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Perhaps trolling the entire web is not useful today? I’d love a search engine where I can whitelist sites or take an existing whitelist from trusted curators.
Trusted curators is a dangerous dependency
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I think DuckDuckGo is closer to what you want. Same results for everyone, better privacy, and they're proactive about improving their results. https://duckduckgo.com/ Part of the problem is that there's a lot more low-quality content to wade through now than there was in 2005. I think the Google of 2005 would have trouble delivering quality results today also.
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Perhaps trolling the entire web is not useful today? I’d love a search engine where I can whitelist sites or take an existing whitelist from trusted curators.
Trusted curators is a dangerous dependency
I think DuckDuckGo is closer to what you want. Same results for everyone, better privacy, and they're proactive about improving their results. https://duckduckgo.com/ Part of the problem is that there's a lot more low-quality content to wade through now than there was in 2005. I think the Google of 2005 would have trouble delivering quality results today also.
I don't use Google anymore to search unless I really need to. The algos they use today are not the same classic ones that actually returned results.
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Regarding the Gatekeeper companies like Cloudflare, it sounds like anti-competitive behavior that could potentially be targeted with anti-trust legislation, correct?
Cloudflare functions kinda like a private security company. They don't go around blocking sites willy-nilly, site owners have to specifically choose to use their service (and maybe pay for it), configuring the bot blocking rules themselves. That's not really Cloudflare's fault. Someone has to do it, whether it's them or a competitor or sys admins manually making firewall rules. Cloudflare just happens to be good enou…
Furthermore, they give Google preferred treatment in their UIs and backend algos because it is the incumbent and nobody cares about other smaller search engines. So there's a lot of detail to how they work in this domain.
It's 100% Cloudflare's fault, and it's up to them to give everyone a fair shot. They just don't care. Also, you are overlooking the fact that Google is a major investor (and so is Bing and Baidu). So really this exacerbates the issue. Should Google be allowed (either directly or indirectly) to block competing crawlers from dowloading web pages?