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The American people arent this stupid. Its obvious to everyone that the search results are being messed with. Its incredibly arrogant for Google to think they c

The American people arent this stupid. Its obvious to everyone that the search results are being messed with. Its incredibly arrogant for Google to think they can get away with mass scale information manipulation. Capitalism doesnt work this way, Google search is an inferior product, everyday the opportunity for a competitor to move in gets just a little bit bigger. But the time is not quite here yet

po1nter 7y ago
> Google search is an inferior product Inferior compared to what, exactly? I have yet to find a good replacement.
- codingslave 7y ago
  Worded that poorly, inferior to what could exist. Clearly too expensive at this point to show up and compete, but I think the time is coming.
  - reroute1 7y ago
    Isn't literally everything inferior to what COULD exist?
    - codingslave 7y ago
      No, I think Google search is inferior to what google could produce. By that I mean they tuned their own knobs in such a way that search results are worse than they could be. They are hurting the search results in the name of revenue and bias (political and otherwise)
- cptskippy 7y ago
  Bing is a pretty good replacement if you like pornography with innocuous searches. I tend to disable moderation settings because I'm an adult right? Google does a pretty good job distinguishing intent. For example a search for "<actor|actress>" and "<actor|actress> nude" with moderation settings off yield very different results. On Bing? Not so much.
- ur-whale 7y ago
  > I have yet to find a good replacement. Agreed. I have switched to duckduckgo as my default search engine a couple of years now, and I constantly find myself having to re-enter the query with a !g in front. As much as I dislike what Google has become, their search engine quality is still the best, and by a very, very large margin.
- allovernow 7y ago
  >Inferior compared to what, exactly? Inferior to what Google was 5+ years ago.
- buboard 7y ago
  yandex is better for image search and bing is not that far behind for web. Right now search engines are not a hot topic. But if people smell that google is starting to lose it, you bet they 'll go after his market share like rabid dogs

po1nter 7y ago

> Google search is an inferior product Inferior compared to what, exactly? I have yet to find a good replacement.

codingslave 7y ago
Worded that poorly, inferior to what could exist. Clearly too expensive at this point to show up and compete, but I think the time is coming.
- reroute1 7y ago
  Isn't literally everything inferior to what COULD exist?
  - codingslave 7y ago
    No, I think Google search is inferior to what google could produce. By that I mean they tuned their own knobs in such a way that search results are worse than they could be. They are hurting the search results in the name of revenue and bias (political and otherwise)
cptskippy 7y ago
Bing is a pretty good replacement if you like pornography with innocuous searches. I tend to disable moderation settings because I'm an adult right? Google does a pretty good job distinguishing intent. For example a search for "<actor|actress>" and "<actor|actress> nude" with moderation settings off yield very different results. On Bing? Not so much.
ur-whale 7y ago
> I have yet to find a good replacement. Agreed. I have switched to duckduckgo as my default search engine a couple of years now, and I constantly find myself having to re-enter the query with a !g in front. As much as I dislike what Google has become, their search engine quality is still the best, and by a very, very large margin.
allovernow 7y ago
>Inferior compared to what, exactly? Inferior to what Google was 5+ years ago.
buboard 7y ago
yandex is better for image search and bing is not that far behind for web. Right now search engines are not a hot topic. But if people smell that google is starting to lose it, you bet they 'll go after his market share like rabid dogs