Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine
by mrep on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:55AM
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I mean, you do you but when I search flight I for one am looking to purchase a flight. If I want NASA links or the Museum of Flight I would specify that.
Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine
by csee on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:05AM
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Alternatively, I could have searched for "flight comparisons" or "US airlines" back in 2002 if that's the type of result that I actually wanted.
The problem is that there is no way I can tell current Google to give me stuff that's interesting, novel and information dense anymore. It's all well and good if I knew that the Museum of Flight existed before my search, but the point of Google is to tell me about its existence. I can't tell Google "flight ... but no cost comparison or airliner website stuff"; such a query is currently not possible.
Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine
by vogre on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:45AM
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It's not possible because the demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high. No one will pay for that.
Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine
by csee on Thursday February 17, 2022 @08:02AM
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> demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high.
Demand is real as evidenced by everyone in this thread wanting such a search engine. We are not representative of genpop, but we aren't insignificant either.
Google had this in 2002 (i.e. a default to novel and info dense results unless otherwise specified), so it can't be that hard or expensive.
> No one will pay for that.
So we have ads.
Example. If you searched the word "flight" in 2002, the first two results would be NASA links and the third would be the Museum of Flight. These pages still exist. But now the entire first page of Google search results are cost comparison websites. This is Google's badness, not the web's.