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Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by ronsor »

vkorsunov wrote: post #26
Hasknewbie wrote: post #21

With the recent news covering Google Search's often insane "sugested answers" ("Obama is the current king of America, and is planning a military coup"), fake news SEO trickery, and the general bad feeling about how they rank their results for the last year or so, I've had the thought that Bing/DDG might become competitive again, not because they improve, but because Google slowly got worse. Google is basically the MS…

We developing https://bubblehunt.com - it's search platform, where every user can create own search and provide independent results, like miniGoogle. Now it is alpha version. We love this project because we can provide information that we think is important, interesting and truthful. More info: https://medium.com/@bubblehunt/faq-9dd92c741b23

Needs a non-facebook and non-twitter way to signup. Not everybody has social media accounts.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by vkorsunov »

ronsor wrote: post #71
vkorsunov wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We developing https://bubblehunt.com - it's search platform, where every user can create own search and provide independent results, like miniGoogle. Now it is alpha version. We love this project because we can provide information that we think is important, interesting and truthful. More info: https://medium.com/@bubblehunt/faq-9dd92c741b23

Needs a non-facebook and non-twitter way to signup. Not everybody has social media accounts.

And what authorization systems we needed? We thought through the mail, but it's very easy to create many bots.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by vkorsunov »

ronsor wrote: post #71
vkorsunov wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We developing https://bubblehunt.com - it's search platform, where every user can create own search and provide independent results, like miniGoogle. Now it is alpha version. We love this project because we can provide information that we think is important, interesting and truthful. More info: https://medium.com/@bubblehunt/faq-9dd92c741b23

Needs a non-facebook and non-twitter way to signup. Not everybody has social media accounts.

Maybe Github, G+, ...?

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by marssaxman »

nxc18 wrote: post #5

Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try harder on search nowadays. On the other hand, search isn't the only important thing - presumably that is why Google doesn't seem to focus there. Bing has seemingly given up on some of…

I switched from Google maps to Bing maps a little over a year ago - their edge over Google is that their mapping system still works like a mapping system, and therefore does useful things, instead of whatever the hell it is that Google maps has been trying to do lately. I really hope Bing never catches up, because it's better the way it is.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by ronsor »

vkorsunov wrote: post #73
ronsor wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Needs a non-facebook and non-twitter way to signup. Not everybody has social media accounts.

Maybe Github, G+, ...?

That works too; perhaps I should create my own authentication service and api...

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by kahnpro »

nxc18 wrote: post #5

Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try harder on search nowadays. On the other hand, search isn't the only important thing - presumably that is why Google doesn't seem to focus there. Bing has seemingly given up on some of…

I don't know about you but I have been incredibly frustrated with Google Maps in recent years. They aren't standing still, but they certainly aren't moving forward.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by DanBC »

lucideer wrote: post #47
nxc18 wrote: post #5

Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try harder on search nowadays. On the other hand, search isn't the only important thing - presumably that is why Google doesn't seem to focus there. Bing has seemingly given up on some of…

> Bing has seemingly given up on some of the big things, like Maps As far as I'm aware Bing (along with Facebook and Yahoo!) are backing https://wego.here.com/ these days. I'm curious to see where that goes...

Interestingly wego.here has more up to date satellite imagery for my house than either Bing or Google.

Re: Alternative search engines to Google (2016)

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Post by [deleted] »

lucideer wrote: post #47
nxc18 wrote: post #5

Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try harder on search nowadays. On the other hand, search isn't the only important thing - presumably that is why Google doesn't seem to focus there. Bing has seemingly given up on some of…

> Bing has seemingly given up on some of the big things, like Maps As far as I'm aware Bing (along with Facebook and Yahoo!) are backing https://wego.here.com/ these days. I'm curious to see where that goes...

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