The thesis seems a lot closer to "the open Web is dying".
Google Search Is Dying
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#12Bring back wikipedia in search results.
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#13I’ve posited repeatedly that when Reddit IPOs, I’ll be reallocating a significant chunk of my portfolio into their stock.
Their management has historically lacked focus, but if Reddit ever builds a half-competent search index, and positions itself as a search-first, discovery-second destination, they will be in the FANG tier of stocks.
They have the data. They have the dedicated, active user base. They have free moderation. The hard parts are solved. If only they get someone like Satya at the helm. (Also a big reason for me to believe that an acquisition may also be a good play for a AMZN/MSFT)
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#14Why I use duckduckgo
I still find that DDG's programming related results are limited and often resort to using the Google command to find what DDG couldn't.
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#15 > The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface.
It's better than it was in the past!
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#16Why I use duckduckgo
It doesn't always work well either.
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#17Alternative interpretation: Google so useful that it instantly searches whatever sub-corpus you desire if you simply mention it in your question.
Google says it shows zero ads on 80% of searches. So the whole "ads now take up entire screen" thing is based on the qualitative ramblings of twitter accounts who don't know what they are talking about.
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#18Why I use duckduckgo
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#19Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me: - "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust." This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretl…
> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.
Tons of people don't, though. They type whatever unprocessed half-second thought they have into Google and expect Google to lead them to the water, even if they're tugging and trying to go in the completely wrong direction. Google has optimized for working 'most of the time' for 'the most people', and that means striving for fixing the complete word soup of search results people type in.
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#20Just the way Chrome insists on auto-completing searches has seriously damaged the efficiency of my Googling. I'll search something like "Type-97 whatsit making funny noises", get no results, go to search just for "type-97 whatsit" and it adds the rest back on by itself and I get the same useless results from the first time. I don't make the mistake often enough to remember not to make it, and every time I wonder what…
In the category of features that think they know better than the user, I hate whoever decided they should start using word embeddings in searches.
For example, you get the same results for "expand" and "extend" with both words highlighted in results when you search for either. This makes google entirely useless for complex technical topics with decades/centuries of established jargon. Searching for mathematics has become a torture.