Because everything else sucks way worse, obviously. I mean,...have you actually tried using Bing?
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If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
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#132I would gladly pay for a really good search engine if anyone is listening.
Re: If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Honestly I think people are completely underestimating the difficulty of a good search engine I suspect that is not difficult so much as expensive. Boutique search engines pop up all the time here on HN, but they can't compete fairly against Google, without the resources to crawl a billion webpages day after day.
Google also keeps a copy of the "entire" web in RAM to search it faster.
Source? But it's definitely possible nowadays when RAM is cheap and modern Google makes the Internet feel incredibly smaller than it was 20 years ago.
At the time you would get tons of results from a myriad of small blogs, forums, niche websites. Nowadays it's Pinterest, blogspam and more SEO optimised algorithmic crap. If you're lucky you get a forum result that might actually be relevant.
Given the joke that if you can't Google it it doesn't exist, it follows that the Internet has considerably shrunk in the past two decades.
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#134The “google search sucks” rhetoric is getting a bit old. It works really really well and is free. I rarely ever have issues with it. I think it’s just getting trendy to dog on
Rhetoric aside completely, I can say with all honesty Google doesn't serve me as well as it did in 2014.
"google search sucks" message might lack finesse, but I think it conveys something real--like, a search engine completely optimized to the user using state-of-the-art algorithms, etc. does not exist, perhaps because Google hangs out around "good enough" and would kill anything on the way up.
Re: If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
#135Google sucks compared to Google from years ago. It's still vastly superior to the modern alternatives. It doesn't help that almost all alternatives out there are just Bing with different window dressing, so going through alternatives is just annoying as they have all the same holes in the search results. Another big issue is that everybody just tries to copy Google. I don't need Google in less good, I want to see som…
Google had a "search only forums" filter. I was devastated when they took it away. You can fake it by searching one forum at a time with "site:whatever.com", but you have to do one at a time and that doesn't help if there are forums you don't know about. Google could double its usefulness overnight just by bringing this back.
But do those forums run Google ads?
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#136google needs better date filtering. old threads from reddit keep being marked as new.
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#137I've started using DDG for most searches, and a private email provider instead of gmail
duck duck outsources to bing, so you are really using bing
Re: If Google sucks then why is everyone still using it?
#138Google sucks compared to Google from years ago. It's still vastly superior to the modern alternatives. It doesn't help that almost all alternatives out there are just Bing with different window dressing, so going through alternatives is just annoying as they have all the same holes in the search results. Another big issue is that everybody just tries to copy Google. I don't need Google in less good, I want to see som…
Google had a "search only forums" filter. I was devastated when they took it away. You can fake it by searching one forum at a time with "site:whatever.com", but you have to do one at a time and that doesn't help if there are forums you don't know about. Google could double its usefulness overnight just by bringing this back.
Are there any wrappers for Google search that try to implement a bag of these sorts of workarounds this with a nice UI?
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#139Honestly 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…
No. Google is an actively hostile experience. Try it without adblock and get a taste of how most people get treated by Google. And for the search results, Kagi is already better for 90% of my queries. It's much more difficult now to build a competitive search engine, but saying it's impossible and discussions should be banned is toxic. (And already basically proven wrong with existing competing search engines.)
Even my grandparents figured out how to scroll by the ads at the top of Google search. Actively hostile is a bit much.
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#140you.com is amazing, I'm not shilling for them, but I managed to find a couple youtube videos and a few other tings I couldn't find with google or DDG and Bing.