Ask HN: What do you want to see from a Search Engine?
People always say that "Search Sucks" so:
what do you want to see from a search engine? What do you think Google is lacking? What will make you switch from Google?
what do you want to see from a search engine? What do you think Google is lacking? What will make you switch from Google?
Sure, they collect my personal information, but is that really such an issue? As an analytics certified person, I can say "so what?" It tells me where you searched from, what you searched for, etc, but the information isn't interlinked, it's presented in a random format, the only chance of anyone reliably tying that to you would be if you were they only person to ever search for that term.
I don't think that Google is really lacking anything, if anything it has too much. I go there to use the big, central search box, that's it, I'll quite happily switch the day I find a better search engine, by which I mean, one which provides me with more relevant results.
The truth is that Google and lots of other search engines can search the web pretty well. I can't actually think of a good example where I couldn't find what I was looking for (and isn't that the point?). Maybe occasionally you'll fail to find something really specific, but I think it reasonable to assume that if Google can't find it, it probably isn't there. Or it just isn't good enough to be linked to from elsewhere. And sites like that probably aren't worth a solution.