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.
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.