RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018

Re:RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018 by tthayer on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:19PM (#16596201)

This looks like a "user first" approach which I, as a user, really dig. Don't forget that Google is likely losing out on adwords revenue as a result of this change.

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Re:RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018 by mempko on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:24PM (#16596643)

Wolfram alpha tells the user how they interpreted your question, google doesn't. So how do you know google is giving you the right answer? Without search results, alternative answers are harder to get. Remember the 'how far is the sun' query ?

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Re:RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018 by puzzle on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:37PM (#16596327)

On the other hand: 1) this kind of query is not a big driver of Adwords revenue 2) the direct answer is cheaper to compute than a search of the web index 3) this result page is much smaller to generate, serve, load and render

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Re:RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018 by dfcowell on Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:05PM (#16596514)

4) they are still showing ads on the page.

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Re:RIP Google, a ‘Search Engine’ from 1998-2018 by puzzle on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:09PM (#16597282)

I don't see any ads for the query mentioned, but I guess that's a possibility for the future.

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