Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google

Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by WalterBright on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @02:21AM (#42123651)

I've heard more or less the same thing said about IBM, Walmart, Microsoft, etc.

There is one way to compete with Google search. Google search is a general search engine. But what if you only wanted medical information? information about cars? information about physics? electronics? history? etc.

Specializing makes for a much smaller scope of the problem, and being specialized means it could deliver more useful results.

For example, imdb.com. I don't ask google about movie stuff, I go to imdb.com because it specializes in movie info.

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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by MichaelZuo on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:39AM (#42125976)

There are already extensive databases with search functions in most industries…?

Some of them charge a lot for access but they certainly exist.

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Re:Two Upstart Search Engines Are Teaming Up to Take on Google by bool3max on Thursday November 14, 2024 @05:14AM (#42134723)

I never go to IMDb directly as both it and its search function are noticeably slower than Google’s. So I just tend to Google “<movie name> IMDb” and click the first result.

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