Reddit can't build a better search engine

Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by mrep on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:55AM (#30370949)

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.

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by csee on Thursday February 17, 2022 @04:05AM (#30371014)

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.

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by vogre on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:45AM (#30372068)

It's not possible because the demand for this is very low and implementation cost is extremely high. No one will pay for that.

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by csee on Thursday February 17, 2022 @08:02AM (#30372590)

> 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.

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