Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by goochtek on Thursday May 03, 2012 @08:53PM
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As you haven't mentioned what exactly your search engine will focus on, I'll just throw this idea out there. I would love a search engine that returned results equivalent to Google, yet offered me the privacy level that I desired. With Google, currently I am the product. I know this. I understand this. Thing this is, I don't want to be the product any more. I want to pay for the product on say a yearly fee which guarantees me I won't be sold ads or have my search habit information sold.
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Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by davidjohnstone on Friday May 04, 2012 @02:24AM
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Like http://duckduckgo.com/?
It seems like a nice idea. But I use other Google services like GMail, Google Docs, Google Maps, etc. If I switched to duckduckgo but still used the other Google products I'd feel wrong about it. There aint no such thing as a free lunch.
Now if their search results got so bad that other alternatives were clearly superior, that's different. They have an obligation to provide a good service to us the customers too, but we're not there yet. For me.
After the recent penguin update, their search results have got REALLY bad.
Don't you guys agree?
That's an opportunity, right there.
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by JamesPeterson on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:20AM
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I imagine the opportunity for Google to offer this sort of "private search" (perhaps w/ complementing premium features) via mass licenses to (nervous) big corps would be one worth perusing. I imagine also it might be worth those big corps' money.
Re:A Relevant Tale: How Google Killed Inktomi
by enfilade on Friday May 04, 2012 @11:02AM
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Have you tried http://www.startpage.com?