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Comment by charcircuit | Hacker News Reader

>What's the most popular web server

SearchHut: The first result is django which is not the most popular web server.

Google: Shows an answer box with the market share of various web servers.

Considering Google's answer box randomly picked multiple photos of unrelated people as pictures of murderers and rape victims (with Google being very uncooperative about resolving the issue) I'd say the lack of an answer box might not be that bad.

Even if you skip the answer box the first result is a page which breaks down the market share of the most popular web servers.

An answer box is the right thing for that query. (the web servers)

The part that Google seem to have unfortunately skimmed over is that the answers need to be relevant, exact & correct.

It can certainly be a helpful feature, but I wonder whether it's really better than good, relevant search results presented in a readable way. For example I'd argue the manually curated infoboxes on Wikipedia are likely more reliable than the algorithmic versions Google shows in their results, especially as it's difficult to fix mistakes in Google's version. Google thinks their own solution is the best one because Google made it and so they circumvent the whole page ranking process. Some queries of course need more than just plain search results (see Semantic Web and related things) but for those most engines don't offer enough control and transparency.

But I'm glad people are trying to build alternatives. I'd love a search engine that ignores sites with antipatterns like required registration for any kind of usage, and this is the first step.

This one is actually hilarious because google cites the site wrong for me. >Apache HTTP Server >It is one of the most popular web servers around the world. As of May 2022, Apache holds 31.5% of the market according to W3Techs and 22.99% according to Netcraft. It's quoting that from https://www.stackscale.com/blog/top-web-servers/ which clearly states Nginx as the top one. >As of May 2022, Nginx holds 33.5% of the market according to W3Techs and 30.71% according to Netcraft.

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