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What makes Google a lot more useful than the alternatives is the vast amount of “widgets” they have. For example when searching for a persons age, in shows up
by leodriesch 5y ago
What makes Google a lot more useful than the alternatives is the vast amount of “widgets” they have.
For example when searching for a persons age, in shows up instantly in a large font on top. When searching for “champions league today”, you will get all soccer games for today neatly presented right inside of Google.
I haven’t seen another search engine that makes accessing this type of information this easy to access. And the sheer amount of widgets and engineering power behind them probably makes it harder to catch up to Google for the small players.
- dx034 5y agoDDG also has widgets. But they don't have good localized results. That's where Google really excels. Any non-English search queries are just bad on alternative search engines. Maybe they're impossible to get right if you don't have programmers around the world or there's just no focus on those for the other search engines.
- DeathArrow 5y agoI think text search is what actually matters most. Image search, book search, maps, video search, widgets are just conveniences. I don't actually look for the widgets or Wikipedia results.