Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?

Re:Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-... by Smirnoff on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:06AM (#10191146)

I foresee Google being replaced by something else. As a search engine Google has been stagnant for a while.

I still cannot black- or whitelist websites that I want or don't want to show up in my results. Really, I want to control what I see!!!

When another search engine gives me the flexibility to control my results, I'll jump ship. But currently even with annoying results that I don't want to ever see again, google's results are still better than anything else.[1]

[1]- Although yandex is definitely better for search results in Russian.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-... by rdancer on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @09:11AM (#10191168)

That's what browser extensions are for. Google has had blacklisting for a spell (last year?), and whitelisting, but IMO it failed to pass the 80/20 threshold.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-... by arthurpaul on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @11:05AM (#10191866)

google custom search could be used for whitelists

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