> The next Google can’t just be an input box that spits out links.
An input box that spits out links is _exactly_ what I want.
An input box that spits out links is _exactly_ what I want.
I don't mean that in a derogatory sense, I just strongly believe that in 20 years we'll look back at our Googling years and wonder how we managed to find anything at all. Who know what the next pattern of information retrieval will be, but I personally think it'll be an even bigger jump than the jump from reference desks and encyclopedias to Google.
Edit: okay, maybe not 20 years. Decades, perhaps.
https://horses.extension.org/what-is-the-carbon-footprint-of...
> The digestive process of horses produces far less methane than the digestive system of cattle and sheep. (...)
Also the Ford company’s dogged resistance to listening to customer wants (“Any colour you want so long as it is black”) hurt Ford as soon as they had to compete on anything but price, with GM finding success with “a car for every purse and purpose”. From 1921 to 1927 Ford went from controlling 65% of the American car market to just 15%.
All that to say: “innovator vision that flies contrary to common sentiment about what people want” is often overrated and can be a trap. That’s not to say that the customer is always right… but they’re not always wrong either.
I think achieving this would be worth billions, at least?
We really tend to underestimate the amount of spam on the internet.
Google does badly here: it overcorrects and you get only super safe results. Yandex? Unless you get lucky, lots of spam.
You'll still get spam if that's all that matches your query, but now all it takes is for someone to make a page matching the query without the aforementioned items to outrank the spam results. You wouldn't need to append "site:reddit.com" to your queries because the (mostly) non-commercial Reddit results would automatically outrank all the blogspam and listicles.
If ads were downranked it would make a lot of spam/clickbait/listicles unprofitable overnight as they'd rank low enough that the costs of creating & maintaining the spam site/content would outgrow the returns from ad impressions.
This would be a really interesting experiment: A search engine that ranks websites by the amount of Ads and other spam that they contain.
I'd pay /mo for a good one. Why not? Currently trying Kagi.
SEO is killing Google and it needs to be addressed before it kills the internet. Having the opportunity to build an app that solves a search, instead of perpetuating a spam system, has been really rewarding... and we're just getting started.
I've been trying out Kagi as my default search engine, but will give You a try next.
When I'm researching stuff, I go thru a whole page of google result, and 'open in new tab'...90% of the time it's crap, and I really wish I could signal google 'this was useless'.
I currently recommend Kagi.com, it can block but also pin selected domains at the top of the results list.
In fact often you don't even want the information, you just want to solve a problem. I don't know about you, but I don't like learning all about air conditioners and spending time finding the product available in my area with the highest quality/price ratio that fits into my budget. I just want the best air conditioner for me.
Providing links is the only thing that scales, since you can delegate the aggregation work to specialists and you van verify the source.