Quoted searches getting better is good. I mostly use them for math and programming related searches. If some bright spark is sitting around with talent to spar

Quoted searches getting better is good. I mostly use them for math and programming related searches. If some bright spark is sitting around with talent to spare but no idea, the perennial failure mode “search engine for hackers” is an idea whose time has come. Google is sufficiently beholden to search revenue that grew too much faster than use to be a death sentence for vertical search startups anymore. And modern OSS/cloud compute make the once technically impossible merely absurdly difficult. And “search for hackers” -> “search for technical stuff of all kinds” -> “search for serious people” -> “…” sounds kind of familiar.