The Mediocrity of Modern Google.
The Mediocrity of Modern Google.
These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality…
These days, whenever I think about Google, I recall a line from Madame Bovary. “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris,” Flaubert writes, capturing Emma Bovary’s provincial reality and her romanticized dreams of escape. That is Google in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Google is today's IBM.
People keep pushing Kagi. You get 100 free searches to try it. So far I haven't had a search result from Google thats so bad I need to turn to another search engine, its just a poor user experience.
I tried to use Startpage and it almost did the trick. It was text search results parsed from google without any of the other crap that shows up in search results these days. However one critical tool was missing - The forums search category. They have other categories like images, news, shopping, etc. I heavily use forum searches when viewing search results and not having it was an instant deal breaker.
People keep pushing Kagi because they love it. I know, I’m one of them. Anybody acting like there’s no way out of google’s clutches is following the “we’ve tried nothing, and we’re all out of ideas” mantra.
When replacing big services you're not going to find a single solution. You will probably find several smaller solutions that all specialize in one or two things.
This may be a helpful graphic when deciding on a search engine