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Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index by mountainb on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:00AM (#30361688)
Mainstream search provides easier access to the equivalent of junk mail. Some paid search engines that index actually useful information can be pretty good. But right now Google just gives you the best spam that it can find, and potentially something halfway useful like the digital equivalent of a catalog entry for a book you can buy.
Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index by alangibson on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @11:16AM (#30361888)
There are paid search engines?
Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index by eitland on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:01AM (#30384302)
Kagi (still closed beta, extremely good, think of a modern version of Google at its best sometime between 2006-2010)

Neeva (freemium. No idea about the quality since it is not available to anyone except those located in the US it seems)

Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index by gowld on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:06PM (#30365671)
Lexis-Nexis
Re:A smart, playful book about the underappreciated index by alangibson on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:23AM (#30371931)
That's more of a for-pay library with a search engine.