Reading this article definitely brought back fond memories of early Google. I remember the first time I used Google (based on a friend's recommendation), and I

Reading this article definitely brought back fond memories of early Google. I remember the first time I used Google (based on a friend's recommendation), and I remember the elation I felt at being able to find useful results so easily. I spent about 20 or 30 minutes just searching topics that I was interested in. I found stuff that I had no idea existed despite looking for it fairly aggressively in the past (mostly academic content on cognition and timely news/culture information from PRC and Japan). That night I took a dive down the rabbit hole, and I didn't come back out until sunrise.... Does anyone else remember their first Google experience? The current state of Google is largely suckage, this recent link on Google killing organic search being just one representative example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971560 Is DuckDuckGo the answer? Are there any other promising engines on the horizon? For anyone considering taking on the search space, I am definitely willing to accommodate some minimally intrusive monetization of a site (including straight payment), as long as I could get clean, fast, and highly relevant results.