Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
by prismatix on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:18PM
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I've been using Kagi as my default search engine on my phone to test it out. Honestly, it just doesn't hit the convenience mark. when I search for a restaurant + hours, Google shows the hours in a card at the top of the results. Kagi can't or doesn't do that, and often doesn't even find the restaurant. I haven't used DDG so I'm not sure if they're similar, but for the average user Google just consistently hits the mark (of convenience)
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
by lessname on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:52PM
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Thats because many companies directly type in their data on Google My Business to make their business easier to find. There is also a community doing this (same with facebook). Smaller competitors could do the same with a community or at least manually typing in the data at least for bigger companies.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
by shafyy on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:03PM
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I also use Kagi and I think it's good enough for most things. But you're right, for local search results Google still is better.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
by freediver on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @11:42PM
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This is because we are still in beta and simply do not have local search developed yet. Work in progress. Glad you are comparing a year old startup to a 20 year old, $2T company - keep us honest!