The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t

Re:The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where... by x87678r on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:24PM (#24849335)

> And nobody else comes close to having a competitive search product. I've used DDG and Bing.

This was certainly true 10 years ago, now I can't really tell the difference.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where... by agrd00 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:31PM (#24849407)

I use DDG by default but will use Google.

Honestly, I use search engines very little anymore.

SEO games make them almost useless to me. Certain well curated Reddit feeds, and sources where it looks like people give a toss is my preference. IRC, Slack, Discord communities are real time with a person, and probably “better” for discovery.

Let’s throw thousands of years of social evolution in the bin cause some billionaires can afford a lot of computers and exorbitant wages to have unscrupulous randos monopolize our exposure to the world. Ok

Same with FB, Twitter; I’m not finding a need to connect to everyone over their cat pic firehose, and the noise.

Edit: email works great for connecting to academics all over. Networking isn’t just through LinkedIn (which I also don’t use), and Upwork, or www at all. It’s just one of numerous conventions.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where... by MrZander on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @01:14PM (#24849893)

For general queries, I agree. But for any technical query, I find Google to be 10x better. I used bing for about 6 months, but considering most of my searches are technical, I found myself switching to Google > 40% of the time and just gave up.

[ Parent | on HN ]