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I’m curious, what would you want to differentiate in? As far as I’m concerned, Google achieved an almost perfect search engine maybe 5-10 years ago, before they

by atty 6y ago

I’m curious, what would you want to differentiate in? As far as I’m concerned, Google achieved an almost perfect search engine maybe 5-10 years ago, before they started pushing their ads harder, hiding the page address, and all these other user-hostile behaviors they’ve been taking in the near past. I just want a service that gives me the most relevant result as the first option, with no distractions.

ratww 6y ago
Not GP but: would be nice to have a search engine that penalises content marketing and ad-heavy websites. The web is flooded with bad content, and Google doesn't seem to care, since it brings money to them. There's also too much duplicate junk: it would be nice to search for a song title and not being given 20 pages of copycat lyrics websites. Or 20 pages of copycat guitar tab websites. Also: software aggregators, Wikipedia mirrors, Stack Overflow mirrors, Github mirrors. I mean they're all the same, maybe just aggregate them together? Would also be nice to be able to filter out, or at least de-emphasise things like: piracy download sites, fake download sites, fake ebook sites. Of course that would need some curation.