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Comment by fouric | Hacker News Reader

The project explicitly bills itself as a "search engine", not an "interesting and unexpected material surfacer". Moreover, projecting emotions like "angry" onto a comment in order to discredit the content of the comment (hey! is that an ad-hominem?) is just about exactly the opposite of the discussions that the HN mods are trying to curate, and the discussions that I like to see here.

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If you click through to the About page, I think you'll see that "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is a fairly apt description of the project.

I think in fairness that when "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is merely a euphemism for "we didn't bother indexing the things you might actually be looking for", a degree of scepticism isn't unwarranted.

(Source: I looked up several Irish politicians because I run an all-text website containing every single word that they say in parliament. I got nothing of use, or even of interest, for anything.)

In the early days of google, I found what I was looking for on page 5+. On the way, I’d discover many interesting things I didn’t even know I was looking for, often completely unrelated to what I was searching for.

I miss those old days of even being permitted to go many pages in.

And now Google hides that more than one page even exists, as they populate their first page with buttons to ask similar questions and go to the first page of THOSE results.

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