Google Search Is Dying | DKB
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Reddit is currently the most popular search engine. The only people who don’t know that are the team at Reddit, who can’t be bothered to build a decent search interface. So instead we resort to using Google, and appending the word “reddit” to the end of our queries.
  • SheepWolf
    3•2 years ago

    Appendix 4: Yawn, this is the 87th time someone has claimed that Google search is dying in the last 20 years. This is a big meme in the SEO world.

    “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” - Google, probably

    You’re right, there’s been a new article bashing Google every few months for the last 20 years straight. It’s probably nothing.

    Still, it is a bit interesting that this short and simple post is now one of the most upvoted things of all time on Hacker News. There must be a lot of people who resonate with it this time around.

    I don’t think it’s Hacker News only that feels like Google is somehow lacking something or doing something that does not mesh well with users. Previously, I had been using DuckDuckGo (for various reasons) and if I needed to I would just use the !g bang to see some alternative results (I believe DDG primarily relies on Bing search among others).

    On Tildes, there was a post about alternative search engines, and a user recommended Kagi. It’s currently in beta, but it seems to do certain things pretty well. The big caveat which I’m on the fence about, is that eventually they want to move to a $10/month subscription. The idea of paid search is new (to me) and something I might be on board with. It could be a potential solution to search becoming terrible due to advertisements/advertising though.