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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by jefftk on Saturday February 08, 2020 @10:38AM (#22276258)
My grandparent was saying "Google, Bing, and (at lower quality) Yandex are the only viable English-language search indices right now", and my parent was asking whether Cliqz counted. I think the GP is correct and Cliqz doesn't.
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by __ka on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:08AM (#22288762)
Hey, I am working on Cliqz Search [0] and would be very thankful if you point me to quality issues. I use it daily myself (in English) and will make sure those issues are addressed.

[0] https://beta.cliqz.com/

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by jefftk on Monday February 10, 2020 @09:57AM (#22289600)
If you click through my link above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676600) my process went like:

1. Search for a blog I follow

2. Look at the snippet for the blog's homepage

3. Figure out how long ago the page must have been crawled to get such an old snippet

I only tried a few, but they were months to years out of date.

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