| ▲ | shevy-java 3 hours ago | |
That is also my experience with DuckDuckGo but all search engines. They ALL suck including Google Search. I don't know why, but the results are simply crap. > I thought there was going to be some substance to this post but it reads like someone congratulating themselves for a choice they made and then trying to backwards justify it. I don't read that. Where do you see a backwards justification? Do you know the decision-making steps? I simply don't see how you can conclude this, unless you assume it. In which case the assumption may easily be totally incorrect. | ||
| ▲ | Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> I don't read that. Where do you see a backwards justification? Most of the improvements he cited in his life were either unrelated to Google or things that he could have turned off in Gmail. He complains about Gmail sorting his e-mail, but that's a feature he turned on. He could have just turned it off. He complains about his inbox being polluted from putting his e-mail address into everything, but his new account doesn't have anything signed up yet. That's not a Google problem, that's an e-mail address problem. He says that he's getting in the habit of skipping search engines and going straight to IMDB or Wikipedia or Reddit, but again that has nothing to do with Google specifically. | ||
| ▲ | Arainach 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> That is also my experience with DuckDuckGo but all search engines. They ALL suck including Google Search. I don't know why, but the results are simply crap. (obligatory disclaimer: I work for Google but not in Search, all opinions strictly my own, yadda yadda) It's a scale problem. An (in my opinion) unsolveable one. Google - let's say all search engine companies combined - employ N engineers working on search engines. They allocate those teams X dollars, and let's pretend that's all these companies do and their total income is Y dollars. Around the world there are orders of magnitude more people - let's say 1000*N, I don't know if anyone has even tried to gather this data - trying to game the search results and get their thing to the top. Those people have a combined budget dramatically larger than X and (I suspect) significantly larger than Y. Oh, and the best of them are almost certainly sharing notes and tactics with each other. Even if everyone working on a search engine is a 10X genius engineer, they're still at a multiple-orders-of-magnitude disadvantage. | ||