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Yeah, it depends on what you want to prioritize and value in your search engine. I’m coming at it from the angle that if you want to make a good, new, and diffe
by jshen 4y ago
Yeah, it depends on what you want to prioritize and value in your search engine. I’m coming at it from the angle that if you want to make a good, new, and different kind of search engine you need to do something fundamentally different than Google. No one is going to beat Google at their own game. Leveraging meta data is a very easy way to make something new and different, but it won’t be as comprehensive as Google. I doubt that someone doing what you described over a few months or year could make a search engine that anyone wanted to use.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago> I doubt that someone doing what you described over a few months or year could make a search engine that anyone wanted to use. Dunno, not only are people sending me money to develop my search engine, not enough to live off but still, I also get emails and tweets from people who say they love it almost on a weekly basis. I think attempting to be as comprehensive (or more) than Google is a trap. The better move is to fly under them. Be cheaper and better at something. Recipes is a great example of something Google is just miserable at, that is easy to do much better. There's plenty of such niches.