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the monopoly here is on web indexing, isnt it?
by 8note 8mo ago
the monopoly here is on web indexing, isnt it?
- otterley 8mo agoNope. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Kagi all have more-or-less complete indices. There's no moat around scraping the public Web.
- xnx 8mo agoDdg has a miniscule index, and that exists mainly just to say they have one.
- neodymiumphish 8mo agoI’m a Kagi user, but I understood this recent post by the Kagi team to mean that they do not index the web themselves and that it’s nearly impossible for them to do so. https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
- otterley 8mo agoMy mistake. Looks like they license it from others.
- millzlane 8mo agoTo me it seems like it's impossible because they can't reorder bing search results or mixed them with other results. Or by their own admission because Google doesn't have a search API anymore. Unless I'm misreading. It's basically "Bing or Google wont allow us to use their products how we want to." And "It will take us over 20 years and lots of money to gain market share." I'm paraphrasing here of course. But it doesn't seem impossible. I mean I don't think it's easy either. I also want to add that I don't want to live in a world with only one search engine.