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I keep dreaming of an open source, distributed search engine and social network. But I guess things will have to get much worse before they get better.
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That's what the Internet Archive is for :)
And there's an interesting idea for a browser extension. If the page the user is looking for no longer exists, check the internet archive and present that instead.
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Why ironic?
Google (which started as a search engine, way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) is now increasingly working on _narrowing down_ the search options available to users.
All they want now is displaying more results = more ad revenue.
The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
The promise was that, as search engines get better, there would be no need for bookmarking and downloading, since all the content in the world is only one sloppy search query away. Somehow, I seem to have ignored this stubbornly and instead bookmarked pages, downloaded videos and copied strings (!) out of the web for years. Not that it did me much good, I now have thousands of inconsistently sorted bookmarks and a bu…
You can't really trust bookmarks either. Most of my bookmarks are dead either because the site is now gone or because some blog author decided to change their path format and didn't bother setup 301 redirects.
Any alternatives? I asked about this two days ago but got no answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7124132 Also, I know that "?tbm=dsc" works but I expect the quality of the results to start falling (it already has for a while) since Google probably isn't going to work to improve the filter.
Also this search list of Q&A sites might be useful: http://nuggety.com/u/nuggety/questions-and-answers
Maybe this is a good spot to mention how much the updated Google Maps also suck. Pretty though.
This is the final nail in the coffin of DejaNews. Just another step in Google's continuing mission to make their Search product worse & worse. It's baffling.
Google is driven by data and sorry but advanced users are a mere blip in that data. I can bet there was a gazilion user studies that showed that your grandma was super confused when 10 options would pop up when she pressed 'More'. The same studies showed that she was much less so confused when 4 options were presented, increasing engine usability for her.
My point here is that some folks attribute sinister motives (more search dollars), while the actual motive is just to make the interface usable for more people.
(Disclaimer: I work at Google, not in search though.)
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I am afraid I don't understand. Duck Duck Go searches google, so if you are having a problem with a google service, how would this help?
No, it uses bing + a little secret sauce, as I understand it. Edit: "Link results are API driven, though top links may come from other sources. Link sources include: Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Blekko, WolframAlpha, and many others."[1] "DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in our own index), Yahoo! (through…