I'm defaulting to Brave, then falling back on DuckDuckGo, then Bing, then Google these days. Feels a lot like the early web again.
If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
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#22Honestly I think people are completely underestimating the difficulty of a good search engine. Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then. End of story. Nobody is coming along with a better search engine. There is too much spam, content gaming, and money to be made by hacking search.
These posts should almost be blocked from hacker news. ITs a fantasy. Its like saying that democracy has failed so lets replace it, replace with what? Its the best we can get given the alternatives, and its flaws will always be exploited.
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#23We’re all just searching Reddit anyway and it’s just easier to use Google to search Reddit than to use Reddit’s own search tool.
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#25Paraphrasing Stroustrup, there are only two kinds of services: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
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#26Just use Startpage, its Google without the tracking. DuckDuckGo is ok too. TL;DR there's no reason to default to direct Google.
You still get Google results in the end, which are growing more full of blogspam and affiliate link farms every year.
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#27> If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
If prison food sucks why do prisoners eat it?
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#28> If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it? If prison food sucks why do prisoners eat it?
Re: If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
#29Just use Startpage, its Google without the tracking. DuckDuckGo is ok too. TL;DR there's no reason to default to direct Google.
You still get Google results in the end, which are growing more full of blogspam and affiliate link farms every year.
Google results are the one thing keeping me on Google. Not sure why getting the almost indisputably best results would be bad. Even if they are getting worse, they're still miles ahead of anyone else.
I've been waiting for a Kagi invite for a while because I've heard good things on HN about it. Finally got one a couple weeks ago. Finally switched off of it and back to Google yesterday. The results weren't even in the same ballpark, despite me really wanting it to succeed.
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#30because it is good, the only people who complain about it are on pro-mozilla mediums, even though mozilla sells their users to google, the irony :)