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I looked at Cliqz a few months ago, and the crawl didn't seem competitive with Google or Bing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676600

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You mean they are not as competitive as a billion dollar company 20 years in business?

My grandparent was saying "Google, Bing, and (at lower quality) Yandex are the only viable English-language search indices right now", and my parent was asking whether Cliqz counted. I think the GP is correct and Cliqz doesn't.

Hey, I am working on Cliqz Search [0] and would be very thankful if you point me to quality issues. I use it daily myself (in English) and will make sure those issues are addressed.

[0] https://beta.cliqz.com/

If you click through my link above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676600) my process went like:

1. Search for a blog I follow

2. Look at the snippet for the blog's homepage

3. Figure out how long ago the page must have been crawled to get such an old snippet

I only tried a few, but they were months to years out of date.

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