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Re:The world needs more search engines by saagarjha on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:20PM (#21677265)
> Now everyone posts their content on a handful of sites - Medium, Reddit, StackOverflow.

They do not and it would be a sad day if they did. Please don’t help push us towards that any further.

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Re:The world needs more search engines by buboard on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:35PM (#21677349)
They do though. Old content will just gradually disappear into webarchive. Let's not pretend it didnt happen. (oh and btw we will probably change that again, but the content won't go into webpages-hosted-somewhere but probably will be served directly from the user's phne)
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Re:The world needs more search engines by Avamander on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:45PM (#21677406)
Only if it's common knowledge. I've legit started to add "blog" to my searches to find more obscure knowledge.
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Re:The world needs more search engines by edjroot on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:19PM (#21677847)
Don't forget that "it seems that Google is forgetting the old web": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135
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Re:The world needs more search engines by Avamander on Sunday December 01, 2019 @04:36PM (#21677948)
I know it is, but other search engines seem to be as well.
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