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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by dna_polymerase on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:05AM (#29393615)
> Everytime one of these threads show up, I find myself wondering why someone doesn't launch a technical and research focused competitor. There seems to be such broad agreement that Google is now terrible for research that there's for sure a market for it.

Your bubble seems to agree, but the lack of serious competition, even in niches, is a sign that outside the HN bubble Google is in fact not seen as any worse.

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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by sidibe on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:34AM (#29393963)
Seems like for a decade several times a week this question shows up on HN and 99% of comments agree. Personally for my uses I don't remember it being significantly better, I'm not sure what I'm missing.
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Re:Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? by alangibson on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @11:54AM (#29394223)
Not really. It's a sign that you can't profitably compete with Google.
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