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search for clam antivirus: Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/ DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/ i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
Tried this search on Google myself, got clamav.net as the first link and alternativeto.net at #20
The article mostly talks about IA (instant answers) which are notoriously hard. The recent advances in machine learning have made the technology more approachable, so startups like Kagi Search (disclaimer: founder) can also leverage latest advances in NLP and compete on this ground. To give just a few examples: Query 1: how many stars in the usa flag Google: https://cln.sh/63sVzh Kagi: https://cln.sh/bFEHsD Pretty su…
My favorite is, given that I have a baby and I am a trained scientist and I live in the US, I find myself converting milliliters to fluid ounces a lot. Right now the Google Assistant will correctly transcribe the request to a Google search... Only for the search to interpret “ml” as “miles” and, faced with the discrepancy between the length and a volume, cube the miles. So I am expecting an amount that is like 1 oz b…
Perhaps everyone who understood the codebase has left?
search for clam antivirus: Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/ DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/ i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
Probably, your search history made Google believe that you like alternatives more than the originals? ;) Tried this search on Google myself, got clamav.net as the first link and alternativeto.net at #20
search for clam antivirus: Google first link: https://alternativeto.net/software/clam-antivirus/ DuckDuckGo first link: http://www.clamav.net/ i don't understand why the search result, first link is alternativeto instead of clamav home page
I dont understand how you people are getting bad results. My first link for clam antivirus is clamav.net. And the remainder on the first page are download links and wikipedia links about clamav. I'm not sure if you you people are trolling or what.
even with my search history, cookies, whatever search "clam antivirus" should give me clam av home page for the first link
The article mostly talks about IA (instant answers) which are notoriously hard. The recent advances in machine learning have made the technology more approachable, so startups like Kagi Search (disclaimer: founder) can also leverage latest advances in NLP and compete on this ground. To give just a few examples: Query 1: how many stars in the usa flag Google: https://cln.sh/63sVzh Kagi: https://cln.sh/bFEHsD Pretty su…
Don't be "fair", instant answers have been useless misinformation in every instance I've triggered them. And they've been broken for years. No one at Google is responsible for these half baked and largely irrelevant widgets or wants to stake their career fixing them.
You're just ... wrong about this. There's an entire team of dozens of people (maybe hundreds now) focusing on this specific web answer feature. I personally worked on the team (not this feature, though).
I don't understand why people say things they know nothing about.
The web itself is deteriorating. Instant answers (IA) caused a shift in the way contents are written. Content optimized for IA tend to be repetitive and shallow. Viewing content written for IA is a frustrating experience and these tend to dominant the result page now.
Both Google search and the internet are changing, as are our perceptions, so it's really hard to say why search quality is better or worse.
If you search for anything political on Google, you'll notice that the results are clearly slanted in one direction, towards the opinion of a handful of pre-approved news outlets. This leads me to seek alternatives whenever I need neutral sources, for instance Yahoo search.
I wonder if they're getting cash kickbacks from established corporate media outlets for pushing their material to the top of the search results. That would actually be less creepy than if its being done as some kind of information manipulation program. It's high time Google and other search engines were forced to expose the inner workings of their ranking algorithms to the public, particularly now that they have near…
I use Google through a VPN to avoid it. That breaks maps integration.
If you search for anything political on Google, you'll notice that the results are clearly slanted in one direction, towards the opinion of a handful of pre-approved news outlets. This leads me to seek alternatives whenever I need neutral sources, for instance Yahoo search.
I think that Google is optimizing for the "average user" to the detriment of power users such as the HN crowd. Most people treat Google as an internet oracle and send queries like "how do I do X" while power users will search for keywords. One example of this optimization is the automatic answer boxes that show up for certain questions, which are wrong disturbingly often or don't include important details.
I miss Altavista. I could generally either find exactly what I was looking for inside of three iterations of refining the search, or find that it wasn't to be found. I still just want a blazing fast full text search of the reachable WWW that understands regexes and a basic predicate calculus. Unfortunately the overhead and small potential user base means that under the current regime such a thing will never be made.…