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>for someone else to do better. It's upsetting to me that doing better than Google in search seems to be very close to an impossible feat of magic at this poin
by flyGuyOnTheSly 8y ago
>for someone else to do better.
It's upsetting to me that doing better than Google in search seems to be very close to an impossible feat of magic at this point.
I know that will change some day, but I can't see how.
Even if somebody gave you hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on infrastructure and employees, it would still be an insane risk.
Writing that out, it almost sounds like internet search engines should be as big and as important of an operation like the TLD registrars. Funded by big governments in collaboration with each other.
- ben_jones 8y agoNiche search verticals can still compete. Sourcegraph comes to mind, where you can tweak your search parameters to give superior results for more narrow use cases. I don't google for Recipes anymore because the blogspam is that bad, or for images because I don't want some pinterest or Reddit redirect carousal. I'm sure there are hundreds of example where Google "Lowest common denominator" search does not cut it.