The more I think about it, the more I think the search engine problem has no (currently known) solution. The options are: 1) Word-based crawling/indexing: quic

The more I think about it, the more I think the search engine problem has no (currently known) solution. The options are: 1) Word-based crawling/indexing: quickly abused by spammers. 2) IA/ML-based: I think this is the current model (?), but after a while the machine got "clever" and it makes Google to think it knows better than me about what I am looking for, and returns result for "most people" tastes. The problem is when you are not "most people", and/or you are looking for some niche topic/work related/tech stuff/etc. Simply trying to discover new things like an interesting blog or a small shop it's impossible. 3) Paid-based: as in the article, and might be a good idea. But I think it has to run on a custom indexer. Why would I pay for Bing results? 4) Aggregators: a search engine that returns results from a bunch of other search engines, like DDG and others. 5) A mix of the above? So unless new ideas come to the rescue, I think it's always going to get worse.