Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by santiagobasulto on Sunday March 27, 2022 @09:35AM (#30820111)

There’s a potential technical improvement with Vector Search. Specially for the type of queries that are more “human” (“how do I…”, “where can I…”.

At least for me, I find myself adding “site:Reddit.com” all the time I need a good answer and not just a SEO-tricked ad page. Vector Search could be a technical solution for this. Although it’s fairly new and there is still a lot of research to do.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by JKCalhoun on Sunday March 27, 2022 @11:10AM (#30820817)

I like the idea of "crowd sourcing". When the SEO-tricked ad pages come up and I either scroll past them or, if I do click on them but come right back to the search results and continue scrolling/clicking ... rank downward those brief or passed-over links.

Seems like with enough actual humans I should never have to see another geeksforgeeks page come up in my search results.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by samarthr1 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:19PM (#30821472)

Heh, Geeks for geeks wasn't that bad when I frequented it a few years back.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by mountainriver on Sunday March 27, 2022 @09:43AM (#30820170)

Yeah Google does this already though

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