The next Google
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The next Google
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#2"DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google."
"The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links. We need new thinking to create something much better than what came before."
Could not agree more.
Great roundup of some exciting search alternatives. Thanks for sharing.
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#3Developing search engines and personal assistants are the way to go. Too much information these days to digest , what a better job for a computer that helps us with the literacy aspects of it.
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#4"The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links"
I think one strong contributing factor to Google's success is its simplicity. All the listed competitors add a lot of complexity imho. While all the customization buttons, knobs, lenses, meta crawling, code generation features etc might add some value for the advanced and technically skilled user, it provides rather little value for the average user who just wants to look up a cooking recipe.
So maybe when searching for "the next Google" the interesting question is not "what search features can be added", but "how can search even be simpler than using Google".
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#5The problem with so many customization options is that it creates friction to users. We need something that just works out of the box. Just like Google did when it launched.
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#6I mostly replaced my use of Google Scholar with Elicit. You ask questions, and Elicit gives answers, with citations. Elicit is powered by GPT-3 and it is amazing. Go try it.
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#7The next Google should have less AI and be more deterministic. At least it should have a mode where it searches exactly what I specify instead of searching what it thinks I want. Also give me options to filter out certain domains. Again, let me tell the search engine what I want instead of the engine telling me what I may want.
I feel a lot of modern software is becoming very authoritarian. “We know better than you what you need”.
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#8>But right after that, we’re greeted by an “Interesting Finds” section, which has a fun blog post by Derek Sivers, an article filled with stories of Steve Jobs in Japan, and some other cool things you can’t find on Google.
You can definitely find these on Google.
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#9> The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links.
An input box that spits out links is _exactly_ what I want.
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#10> Everybody has different preferences of how they want a search engine to look and feel.
This sounds like it was written by the infamous Dropbox commenter.
No, most people have never given a single thought to this.