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Interesting, I actually think that the indexing and the infrastructure part of building a search engine is much easier now than it was in the early 2000s. It's

Interesting, I actually think that the indexing and the infrastructure part of building a search engine is much easier now than it was in the early 2000s. It's the ranking that's the hard part. PageRank helped put Google on the map and they've battled the hordes of low-ethics SEO practitioners ever since. I think it's generally agreed that PageRank wouldn't cut it today. I tried Kagi as the default search engine for a few days and realized just how many little things Google does that I prefer, but never noticed until now. Not strictly related to search results, but things like converting units (Kagi has this, but it didn't always work), getting a time in a timezone (same), shopping results, the QA answers, etc. It's a ton of work to implement all that. For now I switched back, but I'll keep an eye out.

makeitdouble 5y ago
> converting units (Kagi has this, but it didn't always work), getting a time in a timezone (same), shopping results, the QA answers, etc. Honestly I’d be happy with a search engine that does search well, and use dedicated tools for the other widgets. I think browsers could do a better work at using the omnibar as a command line tool to cover these cases. For instance I’d really wish it would be easier to map incantations like “/mtg intl” and have a predefined action executed. Bookmark keywords are already half the way there.
sam0x17 5y ago
> Interesting, I actually think that the indexing and the infrastructure part of building a search engine is much easier now than it was in the early 2000s All the more reason for any serious competitor to try to do it themselves, yet no one does.