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Google is a fine search engine.
Google is fine unless you need something really specific, chatgpt is better at this point for a lot of queries because Google give you the most simple answer no matter how specific you got with your keywords. I still miss the ability to use "".
It'd be so easy to filter I wonder why they/Microsoft don't bother. Oh, wait...
So your "search engine" uses Google and DuckDuckGo to get results? and you are creating it because "Google sucks"? Am I missing something here?
Kagi does that, is a paid subscription and HN does praise it a lot.
Google is a fine search engine.
It's fashionable to bash Google and there's probably good reasons to do so. But I agree, their search is still good (enough) for me. Over the years, I've tried others, including DDG, but ultimately returned to Google every time. So, until a better one comes along, Google's search is fine for me.
If those two don't apply Google is often pretty much useless, just giving you low quality/ AI spam blog posts, useless ad-ridden product comparison sites and marketing pages.
There's a reason why adding "reddit" to Google searches has almost become a meme now.
I visited the page on mobile and I have to scroll horizontally back and forth before I can read?
That is not fun at all.
I have been thinking about this. I’d like to index the blogosphere and some knowledge base sites and stuff and exclude most of the Top1000 websites. I imagine I could do it on consumer hardware for less than $10-20k. Perhaps common crawl has done much of the heavy lifting already and I just have an indexing task.
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It's fashionable to bash Google and there's probably good reasons to do so. But I agree, their search is still good (enough) for me. Over the years, I've tried others, including DDG, but ultimately returned to Google every time. So, until a better one comes along, Google's search is fine for me.
Google is mostly fine if you know what you are looking for and if it's not an SEO / ad target topic. If those two don't apply Google is often pretty much useless, just giving you low quality/ AI spam blog posts, useless ad-ridden product comparison sites and marketing pages. There's a reason why adding "reddit" to Google searches has almost become a meme now.
Why do people always jump on 'umm Google bad' trends? It's all well and good to say it, but as someone who hasn't ever experienced this (apparently common) problem before, I would like to see to believe.
Creating a thin, non-working wrapper around DuckDuckGo as a "hire me" ad, claiming it's a search engine and mentioning Google in the headline because it'll get more clicks.
It's a metasearch engine that can query multiple search providers at once, including google, so you're not missing out on the good results you expect. Pick an instance at https://searx.space/ and tell your friends!
I have been thinking about this. I’d like to index the blogosphere and some knowledge base sites and stuff and exclude most of the Top1000 websites. I imagine I could do it on consumer hardware for less than $10-20k. Perhaps common crawl has done much of the heavy lifting already and I just have an indexing task.
Robust crawling with all the gratuitous anti-bot infra out there (requesting the rss feed that is specifically meant to be consumed by machine for a public gov site is 'protected' by Cloudflare's anti-botting. Seriously?) takes way more work than you think.
You can register with cloudflare as a search engine crawler and they largely will let your traffic through. If you get blocked by individual sites, you can usually just email them explaining the situation and get unblocked.
I'm having very little issues with this.