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The perfect search engine would be powered by humans with a search engine. Google is fantastic but there is no human understanding of the needs and wants that c
by tomatowurst 5y ago
The perfect search engine would be powered by humans with a search engine. Google is fantastic but there is no human understanding of the needs and wants that can be conveyed through series of keywords.
For example when I type "best humidifiers" I want a suggestion that is ideally based on accurate anecdotes of people who've experienced a brand in a variety of context and edge cases.
What google gives me is a cnet article listing Top 10 in 20XX. This is why I add reddit to the end of the search query now.
- bricemo 5y agoThere was a startup called ChaCha that was a real live human answering every query in real time. They would chat with you and find you exactly what you were looking for. In the beginning it was amazing, but then they couldn’t figure out how to scale and quality went down. Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)
- Aachen 5y agoAren't only something like 15% of queries unique? A cache ought to help scale. Don't see it mentioned on Wikipedia what the issues were unfortunately. Interesting though, thanks for sharing.
- ricktdotorg 5y agoshout out to the travesty that was calacanis' mahalo.com[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo.com