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What's so ridiculously hard about indexing and searching? Google does it well, but if I had to use MSN or Yahoo I'd hardly notice. It's very hard for a startup
by mdemare 19y ago
What's so ridiculously hard about indexing and searching? Google does it well, but if I had to use MSN or Yahoo I'd hardly notice.
It's very hard for a startup to beat Google at general search, but by choosing a subset (cheap prices, reviews of consumer electronics, vacations, flights, symptoms of illnesses, mailinglists and forums, blogs, movies, music lyrics, torrents, shareware, etc etc etc) startups will slowly encroach on Google's territory.
Finally, it may be very difficult to build a better Google, but I find it extremely easy to imagine one.
- randrews 19y agoAren't tons of little specialized search engines the problem Google was made to fix?
- mdemare 19y agoBut Google hasn't fixed it. If you're looking for electronic parts, Octopart works much better than Google. But how to find Octopart? How to even know it exists? I envision a search engine that gets to know you, asks for clarifications, and delegates to a suitable specialized search engine. I bet a startup is working on something like this right now.
- stillmotion 19y agoBut building an indexing system that google already has set the standard for is a little more than what any "little" startup can do.