For a same query the number of results varies dramatically.
So weird.
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#12I think the fact that after a long while there are new search engines (Kagi was introduced very recently on HN, now this) should be a wake up call for Google - their search has lost some shine for quite a while. Hopefully something will come out of this - competition is good.
My first search on Alexandria was "UTC time". Google gives me the current time in UTC, which is all I needed. Alexandria gave me...a lot of links to click to find what I'm looking for.
Google search is a lot better than people give it credit for.
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#13This actually makes me want to build my own web crawler and search
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#14I think the fact that after a long while there are new search engines (Kagi was introduced very recently on HN, now this) should be a wake up call for Google - their search has lost some shine for quite a while. Hopefully something will come out of this - competition is good.
My first search on Alexandria was "UTC time". Google gives me the current time in UTC, which is all I needed. Alexandria gave me...a lot of links to click to find what I'm looking for. Google search is a lot better than people give it credit for.
When I need a clock I'll be sure to use Google.
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#15I think the fact that after a long while there are new search engines (Kagi was introduced very recently on HN, now this) should be a wake up call for Google - their search has lost some shine for quite a while. Hopefully something will come out of this - competition is good.
At some point, AI and NLP and raw processing power will have progressed so much that "search" is not a problem anymore, and I think we're getting there. Google can up their game but it won't matter much. The only thing they have left is brand recognition.
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#16It doesn't work well for programming queries :(
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#17> Found 0 results in 0.05s
I have a test search string that I use to try out search engines, this one didn't do very well.
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#18> Found 0 results in 0.05s I have a test search string that I use to try out search engines, this one didn't do very well.
Unless you were testing for speed!
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#19which makes it very hard to follow-up on queries.The cursor moves back to the beginning of the search box after you search,
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#20The initial commit was 11 months ago and written in C++. I haven’t done C++ since college ~7 years ago. Is it a good language for greenfield projects these days, or would something like Go or Rust (or Crystal, Nim, Zig) be better for maintainability and acquiring contributors?