Google shouldn’t be the only source of interest-based recommendations

I wish.

It's not because they are Google, it's because their algorithm is so good, that when there will be another alternative to google search, it will need to act the same.

I'm dealing with content on a daily basis. Most of the challenge when it comes to writing content is to make it suitable to more than 200 factors Google is using in their algorithm to determine the quality of this content.

You can think about it as a massive supermarket checklist, Only when all the 200 boxes checked, your wife will tell you good job.

The article undermines the title and itself by mentioning the other non-Google sources of interest based recommendations like reddit and other people then acting like there are no alternatives. It is befuddling to say the least like complaining that McDonalds is your only lunch option after listing your kitchen, a work fridge, and several other restaurants in the area.

To be fair, Google is doing a great job, although it's true we shouldn't rely on only a few big companies to provide recommendations.

Fwiw, i've built a RSS reader and i'm currently adding a recommendation feature to it. That's a feature i've always wanted to have in a RSS reader. If you want to check it out, it should available in the next few weeks (https://aktu.io)

A bit late to the party, but I've recently started a personalized recommendation service, currently focusing on news. So far it's good at identifying which subreddits you are interested in, and soon it will be able to give you recommendations across the web. Check it out!

https://www.onlyvetted.com/

Well, it kinda helps that they were the first good search engine. Their name is synonymous with performing a search, much in the way people say "let me grab a kleenex" with regard to tissues,or "I used a q-tip to clean my ear, doctors and their advice be damned" with regard to whatever the hell q-tips are called without referencing a brand name.

Granted, as a result of that in Google's case, their market dominance is kind of self-perpetuating, because that higher usage leads to better results, since our brains think very similarly, so that thing you were thinking of has already been searched for, and thus their algorithm has already filtered the results down to what you likely want before you even know that you need to search for something.

Take a new video game for instance where you want to search for the map or walkthrough for a particular level.

You'll get better results using Google, because most other people are already using Google to search for that exact same thing, whereas when I do the same with duckduckgo, it's hit or miss on the results.

I still miss Zite. It provided a great selection of algorithmically ranked content that matched my interests. Despite Flipboard buying them, the experience never was the same once Zite shutdown (and flipping is dumb phone paradigm).