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I also always wonder how companies can simultaneously offer to sell their highly advanced AI-bla search, yet utterly fail at searching themselves. I still reme

I also always wonder how companies can simultaneously offer to sell their highly advanced AI-bla search, yet utterly fail at searching themselves. I still remember the time when Google tried to license their search servers to enterprises. It appears that market has now been completely eaten by Algolia. And my hunch is that it's because Google's search results are completely irrelevant for professional users. I search for a Windows API function name, and I get pages of SEO spam trying to sell me an unrelated Udemy beginner's course.

1DRACOSEA8 6y ago
You sound like an idiot. I’m sure you were not intending to Communicate so naively a point, if that, lazily delegated to the tongue not the cortex at hand; an expression without closure. No company is looking to serve you, for one, you hang out at HN. Hackers are terrible customers. You can toil away in darkness for all I care, little paper work, little trail. Some of the best projects were done with secrecy in mind, resulted in seemingly failure, but they ended being successful by not listening to the naysayers: MONODEVELOP, KUBERNETES, ETC