Well... Yes, it should. But, no, it seems it does not. I thought about this when typing it but did it anyway, maybe because I thought there is still something w

Well... Yes, it should. But, no, it seems it does not. I thought about this when typing it but did it anyway, maybe because I thought there is still something worthwhile there. I still think the model could work if the algorithm is sufficiently different than Google's. Ideally, people would go "I did not find anything I cared about on Google, I know, I'll use Bing!" - but nobody does this, because the results are consistently worse. Don't get me wrong, I like G as a company, I think they do worthwhile things! But they have left things slip and need competition into this field, I mean real competition, then maybe they would actually address issues. Maybe the issue is also on the incentive level as well. I mean more searches means more eyeballs and more money for Google. If someone searches one thing and they are done that is less interaction! I hope they don't work like this, but it's possible. And another possible problem is the opposite. Maybe Google is optimizing search for what it thinks people want, but it uses the wrong metric. Or it gives people what they want but not what they need.