Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo
by mxcrossb on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:12PM
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As an experiment, I searched “tech news aggregator” on both google and DDG. Neither listed Hacker News. Instead, apart from a few actual sites, most of the links were articles saying “top ten tech news sites” or links to quora q&a threads.
It definitely seems that search engines can’t find new websites for people. Now they are just aggregating Q&A.
Re:We can do better than DuckDuckGo
by bscphil on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @07:42PM
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Yeah - this is sort of my thinking. For better or worse if you enter "discovery" terms, what you will get back is not the results of a "discovery" search, but rather an answer to the question "what are some websites that will help me discover X".
It definitely seems that search engines can’t find new websites for people. Now they are just aggregating Q&A.