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Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by naner on Saturday January 04, 2014 @05:09PM (#7013181)
What about targeted search engines? Google has gotten progressively worse for technical searches as it has been improving generalized "what you mean" searches for everybody else.
Re:We Need Viable Search Engine Competition by antics on Saturday January 04, 2014 @05:12PM (#7013192)
Personally? I think there's lots of room for innovating search. Probably not in that area, but in a lot of other areas. Consider, for example, that the majority of the world will has an Internet connection only via phone. Mobile search is an entirely different beast. It is not clear Google's solution is the best here, and because the pattern of using Google on mobile is shaky enough that it could be supplanted with a convincingly better solution. That's to say nothing of the fact that Google's success in developing countries is actually not at all a given.