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> I think that the right model for content discovery is either crowd sourced by a like-minded community, like hacker news or curated;

I'm curious how you'd scale that. Google gets 8.5 billion searches per day. 8.5 billion "Ask HN: Where's the best resource for X" isn't going to scale to that.

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> Where's the best resource for X"

Reddit is a pretty credible alternative for that.

That is not my experience. The mods there close any question that's been asked before even if the previous one is out of date and is closed to new answers. They also just seem to close most questions period.

Are you sure you're not thinking about Stack Overflow? I hate defending reddit ever since the API debacle, but there are scads of subreddits, many with different sets of mods, and all of the ones that help me with product reviews don't seem to have aggressive moderation?

Edit: for example, I was searching for woodworking design software this morning and got a lot of helpful-looking results from reddit.

It was a while ago. I would presume many posts and replies to posts are by marketers and/or LLM bots, especially for posts asking for product/service recommendations.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think op is responsible for scaling their suggestion up to serve everybody on the internet.

Then it's a model for discovery of a tiny sliver of content :shrug:

Google is now moving towards the position AltaVista used to have: everybody is using this search engine because of its breadth of coverage, the users are often unhappy with having to search for a long time and adjust the query many times, and complain about the inefficiency of it.

I hope Kagi will grow and attain a large enough market share to afford indexing more of the web. Maybe we'll have a really useful search engine again, like it's 2001. For a few more years at least :-/

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