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I just searched "how to fix a flat tire" on both Google and Kagi and got pretty similar results. Different in display but no .edu links in sight.

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Why would a .edu help you learn to fix a tire? That seems like a YouTube question, not something a school would teach, and if they did, not something that would go online.

The article we're discussing is about limiting your search results to ".edu" domains to remove bloat, and gives an example of an https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/303win97/Group3/2245.html which does have this information on changing a tire.

I think the idea is that the SNR of .edu TLD is likely higher than all other TLDs. Probably true for now.

Too bad .edu seems to be restricted to US-based schools. There's plenty of great stuff hosted by universities in other countries but none of them are on the .edu TLD.

There are other national domain schemes with educational subdomains. 'ac.uk' and 'edu.au' being two of which I'm aware.

A listing of top global educational institutions would only have a few thousand entries.

It's not without some irony that I note that the early, and much belated, Internet was largely edu domains, along with a handful of tech firms, government agencies, and military entities.

I've tried the same and don't find the results super similar. Both search engines seem to think that you're trying to repair the old tire. However the second Google result is goodyear.com which, while trying to sell you tires, does explain how to use the spare:

https://www.goodyear.com/en-US/learn/tire-care-maintenance/h...

On Kagi you have to go until the 10th result to get something from Bridgestone, which explains the same thing while being less aggressive about selling tires:

https://www.bridgestonetire.com/learn/maintenance/how-to-cha...

So the trade-off seems to happen between seeing fewer ads and having better tolerance for imprecise queries.

Neeva user here. The first few results on both Neeva and Google are the same. The same with video results.

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