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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by dmitriid on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:21PM (#32785607)
> It's a holdover from when search engines were bad (i.e. around 1998) and you had to go through 10 pages of results to get the one you were looking for.

Unlike today, right? Where actual search results... represent less than 10% of the page and the rest is irrelevant information and ads in Google search https://grumpy.website/post/0XCmMC-2O

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by debesyla on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:25PM (#32786473)
In your example (link) one of the engines returned way better results: guessed and returned stuff that the query author probably meant.

In my opinion a search engine that can guess and understand my question from a single word is superior to encyclopaedic-bureaucratic return. (After all, in whole lot of times I am searching for something that I don't even understand what am I really looking for.)

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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by dmitriid on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:45PM (#32786573)
You can also scroll down to comparison between 2000, 2013 and 2020 here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/19/google-...
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