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    Seriously - why are there so few decent search engines?

    Google completely changed the game and became the best search engine... twenty-odd years ago. And is still, for better or worse, the Search Engine most of us still use today.

    We have Bing.. and what else?

    Why is no one else crawling the web? Or am I just missing something?

    I don't get it.

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    • I was wondering this recently as apparently the original pagerank algorithm just came out of patent, ridiculous as that sounds.Nairn
    • I'll go out on a limb and suggest that a group could create a strong search-centric competitor for £20M. Fuckit, £100M. That's peanuts for globocorps.Nairn
    • "In the US - As of July 2018, Microsoft handled 24% of all search queries. During the same period, Oath (formerly Yahoo) had 11.5%. Google, 63%"Nairn
    • https://en.wikipedia…Nairn
    • Duck duck gorobotron3k
    • Ask Jeeves?PhanLo
    • Isn't DDG just a wrapper for searches via Bing and Google anyway?Nairn
    • Google search is only 12 years old. There were so many competitors back then too.monospaced
    • ^ that can't be right, I was using google in 2000/2001 ishmonNom
    • Also there are few competitors because it is EXPENSIVE to crawl the web, and google already has the traffic that advertisers will pay for. High barrier to entrymonNom
    • ^ 1997 -- The domain Google.com is registered.[11] Soon, Google Search is available to the public from this domain (around 1998).wordssssss
    • Maybe you had your first computer 12 years ago :)Maaku
    • LOL @ Google being only 12 years old. Mono, maybe you fatfingered 12 instead of 21?Krassy
    • AltaVista was the original search engine that preceded Google, but Yahooo bought it and ruined it.Krassy
    • at some point we will have googled all we need to know and goggle will go broke.Gnash
    • Infoseek®prophetone
    • I was wrong, obviously, and I fucking blame my Google search actuallymonospaced
    • I'm using Duck Duck GO since 2 months or so. It doesnt tracks you at all like Google. Every now and then I have to search in Google to get better results.Bennn
    • But its reliable and good 98% of the time I would say.Bennn
    • Google has greatly affected my business in a really bad way. I really mean it, fuck you Google.utopian
    • @Nairn, DDG use Yandex.pablo28
    • I use startpage.com since 5 years. It‘s dutch, does not track and is as good as google.sandpipe
    • I'm guessing Baidu (China) and Yandex (Russia) would be the biggest alternatives to Google worldwide.yuekit
    • Not much help to English language users maybe but it points to the level of investment it takes to develop something like this.yuekit
    • search engine != catalog
      There might be better search engines but no one has built their index as good as Google did.      mekk
    • @mekk they build it to profit, that's the idea of a catalogue. Having a search engine that just delivers THE results can be a great stroke of luck and value
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    • IDK... ask Siri.shapesalad
    • google is more than a search engine, its suspected a spy engine for the state. thats the reason why only other states like china and russia can/want compete.api
    • Duck Duck Goernexbcn
    • If you Google "How old is Google Search" the top result, in LARGE font is 12 Years Old. I blame Google ;)monospaced
    • @sandpipe good one! +1Krassy
    • @pablo28 - they apparently they use Yandex, amongst other engines globally and mainly for results in Eastern Europe and Russia.Nairn
    • But yes, they don't - afaik, anyway - crawl for their own results.Nairn
    • There is a search engine called QWANT https://www.qwant.co… its a searchengine project from Europe. good alternative results and respects your privacy.api
    • @api +1Krassy
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