Curious to hear: what are some rising Google competitors that try to do a better job?
Thanks for mentioning it since I'm creating a snippet search engine and wanted some competitors to compare.
The problem is I don't think the Wiby model (rejecting JavaScript) or the MillionShort model (rejecting popularity) have done a good job capturing what we loved most about the old web and systematizing its curation. There's definitely an opportunity for someone to come along and create a focused niche alternative that's better.
One way I suppose it could be done, is if you convinced a bunch of trustworthy high status trendsetter type people to subscribe to a paid service with a browser toolbar that lets them click a button for each website they visit to say "I like this" or "I dislike this" and then use that information to train a neural network that divides seo spam from content. Mix that with classic page rank and you might have something good. I'm not sure if it'd ever appeal to a more general public audience though.
Anyone who does it is also going to want to make a deal with the archive.org to somehow get a snapshot of the old web, to recreate those original experiments. Or possibly even resurrect an old build of it. Plus Gutenberg. There's enough content from 2005 web alone and all the books published before to last anyone several lifetimes. That's actually one of Google's blind spots. They're so good at up-to-the-minute indexing of current events that sometimes if you just want to get the text to something like Seneca it's like pulling teeth.
> Stumbled was created by Kevin Woblick to revive the famous discovery experience StumbleUpon offered back in the old Web 2.0 days.
Sustainability TBD, but they do have a plan.
Sustainability remains TBD.
Brave Search (with their own index) is new and is already better or as good as duckduckgo.
We don't appear to have any of those pages or anything relevant indexed. We'll look into whether these lyric sites have put up some barriers to crawling. If they are big sites we won't have crawled and indexed many of their pages.
When someone need to know the weather or a sports score they usually just ask Siri or Alexa. If they want to do product research most people go to Amazon. Google search is now below 50% and still falling.
Think about it. You want to buy a coffee maker. What is the first site you go? It is probably not Google.
Being highly rated on Amazon is so valuable, that there are whole industries on making sure your reviews are high, including all sorts of malicious review hijacking.
Amazon the company does not seem to care.
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