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Not to make this personal but too me this deterioration started when Giannandrea (circa 2016?) was put in charge of Search at Google and they let the AI/ML engi

Not to make this personal but too me this deterioration started when Giannandrea (circa 2016?) was put in charge of Search at Google and they let the AI/ML engineers run loose on what was a technically sound product. The disappointing thing is that the current product is probably a better fit for 90% of non technical users and will likely make google more money, it just has become useless as a technical query crawler. Personally I use ddg at home and Kagi for technical work. The only Google search product I still use is 'Google Shopping' as a great proxy to find local shops with online delivery.

cr4nberry 4y ago
> Personally I use ddg at home and Kagi for technical work Why Kagi? What does it do better
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  Sure, here is my short list: - It's the right business model, I am paying! Which means _I_ am the customer, both in terms of support and feature requests. I mean good luck getting answers in goog 'Groups'. Also it means I support Kagi's operational costs so no ads. - It actually respects bolean operators which is something Google had perfected and has been silently ignoring for the past 6 years or so. The 'Lenses' and 'Filters' are also a good addition in Kagi to narrow results further - For my technical queries it does not overvalue 'freshness' which has become a google search obsession. I am not looking for the latest news about Taylor Swift I am looking for a deep crawl on anything related to my very specific technical query. I don't care if it's 15 years old or 2 weeks old. - Pretty much anything UX related is configurable, so any annoyance is easily removed. It pains me to say it but in 2022 I now have to explicitly opt-in, in order for apps to show me a full URL. (But then again perhaps I am just showing my age).

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Not to make this personal but too me this deterioration started when Giannandrea (circa 2016?) was put in charge of Search at Google and they let the AI/ML engi

by DoingIsLearning 4y ago

cr4nberry 4y ago
> Personally I use ddg at home and Kagi for technical work Why Kagi? What does it do better
- DoingIsLearning 4y ago
  Sure, here is my short list: - It's the right business model, I am paying! Which means _I_ am the customer, both in terms of support and feature requests. I mean good luck getting answers in goog 'Groups'. Also it means I support Kagi's operational costs so no ads. - It actually respects bolean operators which is something Google had perfected and has been silently ignoring for the past 6 years or so. The 'Lenses' and 'Filters' are also a good addition in Kagi to narrow results further - For my technical queries it does not overvalue 'freshness' which has become a google search obsession. I am not looking for the latest news about Taylor Swift I am looking for a deep crawl on anything related to my very specific technical query. I don't care if it's 15 years old or 2 weeks old. - Pretty much anything UX related is configurable, so any annoyance is easily removed. It pains me to say it but in 2022 I now have to explicitly opt-in, in order for apps to show me a full URL. (But then again perhaps I am just showing my age).