Who is going to replace Google for us? • Hacker News Board

Google should not be using the same data from different products it owns - or at least give users an option. I really don't want my YouTube Shorts to be impacted by what I saw on YouTube. I don't want my Google News (as @addicted mentioned) to be impacted by my reading habits on YouTube or even my recent search results.

Personalization is everywhere but I really hope that Google also allows for customization by the user. Till then, I really have to diversify my product usage from different companies to have some illusion of control.

Re: Who is going to replace Google for us?

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Post by olah_1 » Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

I really look forward to interfaces that let me use my own index of data from my network.

Manyverse[1] and Iris[2] are good examples of apps that will enable this more in the future.

I just want to search “harry potter” and see everything my friends have written about it. If I follow some institutions or encyclopedias, I should also see what they write about it. And I should be able to choose which sources I want to rank higher in search results.

1: https://manyver.se

2: https://iris.to

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Post by zozbot234 » Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

We need to recreate the DMOZ web directory - probably in a federated variety with multiple competing "editors" for any given topic area - before we can hope to really do better than Google/Bing/DDG web search. Human curation is the best and most resilient alternative to SEO spam.

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Post by amelius » Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

leereeves wrote: post #9

amelius wrote: post #3

OpenAI will.

Interesting. What do you mean? I know they compete in AI research, but has (no longer quite so) OpenAI shown any sign of competing for Google's cash cows?

They made great progress in NLP, which is a big part of what Google Search is about. Also, they have the compute infrastructure for it.

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Post by dekhn » Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 4:30 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #17

We need to recreate the DMOZ web directory - probably in a federated variety with multiple competing "editors" for any given topic area - before we can hope to really do better than Google/Bing/DDG web search. Human curation is the best and most resilient alternative to SEO spam.

akebono.stanford.edu will never die

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

addicted wrote: post #5

Google News has become completely worthless for me. It takes my YouTube usage and promotes news stories based on that. But that makes absolutely no sense. I go to YouTube to relax and/or look at things that are not so important. Sudoku solving, gaming news, and/or chess stuff. I used to go to Google News to have an understanding of what’s happening in the world. But now my Google News feed is overridden by stories ab…

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