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If google’s search is nothing special, why are all other search engines worse, including yours?
by konschubert 3y ago
If google’s search is nothing special, why are all other search engines worse, including yours?
- marginalia_nu 3y agoA big part is that they have access to an enormous amount of click data and user data. This not only from being the dominant search engine, but also from sources like Chrome.
- nrabulinski 3y agoAt least a few search engines are either equally good or better. Kagi immediately comes to mind, but there have been others posted on HN over the years as well
- subtra3t 3y agoI agree with you but at the same time I can see why you were downvoted. No need to be so rude. But I feel that it's incorrect to dismiss Google as being a bad search engine. DDG and Brave both provide !bangs for google and many other search engines that a significant part of their userbase use regularly. I myself use google often when I'm searching for something extremely specific, something that Google may give me 2-3 relevant search results for. Other search engines would often not give me anything relevant at all.
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