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

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by nobodyandproud on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:12PM (#30821930)

Another way is to add search for walled gardens: The most common by far are corporate documents and datastores.

It’s also a harder problem to solve than Google’s algorithm.

After two decades Microsoft seems to have brought in support, but they left the hard part to others.

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by stingraycharles on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:16PM (#30821966)

Isn’t Algolia pretty much eating this market?

They seem to be very dominant on the problem of “here’s my dataset, please provide me with an api / interface to search it”

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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging? by csa on Sunday March 27, 2022 @02:10PM (#30822509)

Maybe?

When searching for something on HN, I get much better results using Google and site: rather than using the embedded algolia search.

I would have to think that this would be true of a corporate data set as well.

Their api might be what sets them apart, though. I’m not sure… not in that space.

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