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You're helping google by tagging its searches, so many people ask for this kind of things that they can prioritise results that gets the most clicks (people ran

You're helping google by tagging its searches, so many people ask for this kind of things that they can prioritise results that gets the most clicks (people rank searches for google everytime they click). By contrast, the new privacy friendly search engine from the article, with a lot less money and users, can answer a simple question like "news guy actor in spiderman" with Cliqz: - And the new actor playing Spider-Man is... this guy (www.foxnews.com) - J. Jonah Jameson (J.K. Simmons) | Spider-Man Films Wiki (spiderman-films.fandom.com) Not bad for a small German company uh... And even if it didn't, when I know it's Jonah Jameson, I can search for the actor that played Jonah Jameson. Search engines are not about having "the answer to life the universe and everything" but helping users refine their searches until they find what they were looking for.

lolinder 7y ago
That may have been what search engines were for, but Google changed that. Very few people have the patience any more to try multiple queries to get an answer. When DDG fails, as it inevitably does, I don't spend time refining my query: I repeat the search on Google and get my answer.
- chinesempire 7y ago
  It's true. But Google fails as well. Most of the world population is not native english speaker. Try "attore che recita la parte del giornalista in spiderman" (the actor that plays the journalist in spiderman) in Italian - Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - James Franco - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - Spider-Man film: tutti gli attori | Popcorn Tv (https://popcorntv.it https://popcorntv.it) - Martin Sheen, dieci ruoli per scoprire un grande attore ... (https://www.consigli.it https://www.consigli.it) Or the simplified version "attore che fa il giornalista in spiderman" (same meaning as before, just more down to earth) - J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org) - Spider-Man: Far From Home, nel cast anche l'attore ... (https://tg24.sky.it https://tg24.sky.it) Refining is still a very present need, it's simply that for common searches on common topics in english it's less so... It's more or less the same in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese... I can't even imagine the results in languages like Arabic, Indonesian or Balinese. Local, culture aware, search engines are the future, despite Google efforts, the generalist "one size fits all" search engine is not.

lolinder 7y ago

That may have been what search engines were for, but Google changed that. Very few people have the patience any more to try multiple queries to get an answer. When DDG fails, as it inevitably does, I don't spend time refining my query: I repeat the search on Google and get my answer.

chinesempire 7y ago
It's true. But Google fails as well. Most of the world population is not native english speaker. Try "attore che recita la parte del giornalista in spiderman" (the actor that plays the journalist in spiderman) in Italian - Spider-Man: Homecoming - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - James Franco - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - Spider-Man film: tutti gli attori | Popcorn Tv (https://popcorntv.it https://popcorntv.it) - Martin Sheen, dieci ruoli per scoprire un grande attore ... (https://www.consigli.it https://www.consigli.it) Or the simplified version "attore che fa il giornalista in spiderman" (same meaning as before, just more down to earth) - J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://it.wikipedia.org https://it.wikipedia.org) - J. Jonah Jameson - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org) - Spider-Man: Far From Home, nel cast anche l'attore ... (https://tg24.sky.it https://tg24.sky.it) Refining is still a very present need, it's simply that for common searches on common topics in english it's less so... It's more or less the same in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese... I can't even imagine the results in languages like Arabic, Indonesian or Balinese. Local, culture aware, search engines are the future, despite Google efforts, the generalist "one size fits all" search engine is not.