Is publishing an article 'interrupting'? I find it hard to believe that the Verge editors are going after Google competitors and tapping them on the shoulder to let them know it can't be done while they're doing it.
Also, the quote is actually not attributable to Shaw. Seriously, look it up. It's one of those motivation porn fake quotes.
Uh, i never heard this quote. It‘s driving me nuts that people literally interrupt discussions working on solutions by saying how it‘s impossible and blocking… instead of just trying to find a way and think about all the alternatives, that they haven‘t even thought about starting to think about.
Thanks for the quote.
I donno, Kagi has pretty much guaranteed google is now my third most-used search engine. I know I'm just one person, but I've nearly excised google from my life, and it's great.
I haven't gotten around to trying out Kagi, but I had the same experience with DuckDuckGo, and I haven't used Google search in enough years that I'm no longer sure of the number. Suits me just fine. At first, I would search on DDG and fall back to !g if I didn't find what I wanted, but I haven't bothered with that in a long time.
People love to talk about how google feeds them SEO blogspam, but when I moved to DDG I got nearly nothing but garbage sites with a ton of padding. Every search engine I have tried besides google is actual dogass tier garbage that takes me easily 5x as long to find some kind of useful info.
I do, however, have Adblock and personal blocklist to filter out garbage sites, and I maintain a record of 300+ sites that are worthless as far as search results are concerned.
> have Adblock and personal blocklist to filter out garbage sites, and I maintain a record of 300+ sites that are worthless as far as search results are concerned.
If you want to pay to save yourself some effort, I have found Kagi
- to provide better results
- to have working feedback (so if a search provides wrong answer you can report it and a human will look into it and verify it and the search will stop providing wrong info)
- to let me push sites down or even block them completely without doing anything client side
Yes, I am really happy with Kagi, no like other things I push for I am not paid for it, and in the case of Kagi I even pay for it (I don't have any other deals either, but some of the things I push are open source or otherwise freely available).
This article makes a good point to the cost curve of competing, and also demonstrates why monopolies are bad as they build barriers to entry into the market to reduce competition. The only way to defeat something that has cornered a market is to change the landscape of the industry. "Search" isn't really search, it's knowledge fulfillment. We don't need to crawl webpages to find information if the paradigm changed to where websites submitted their sitemap to an aggregator with periodic updates. Then it becomes a knowledge network and search becomes "Lookup" instead. I still believe RSS can take out Search; as long as it is expanded to include consumer products, maps, and the like.
Some fields within Search? Or some fields which aren't Search? I'm curious to see if ChatGPT actually made even a small dent in Google search's market share or if the market itself shrunk due to it. All I see is hype, while Google's ad revenue from search increases (unfortunately).
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Also, the quote is actually not attributable to Shaw. Seriously, look it up. It's one of those motivation porn fake quotes.
:-)
F google.
I do, however, have Adblock and personal blocklist to filter out garbage sites, and I maintain a record of 300+ sites that are worthless as far as search results are concerned.
If you want to pay to save yourself some effort, I have found Kagi
- to provide better results
- to have working feedback (so if a search provides wrong answer you can report it and a human will look into it and verify it and the search will stop providing wrong info)
- to let me push sites down or even block them completely without doing anything client side
Yes, I am really happy with Kagi, no like other things I push for I am not paid for it, and in the case of Kagi I even pay for it (I don't have any other deals either, but some of the things I push are open source or otherwise freely available).
Some fields within Search? Or some fields which aren't Search? I'm curious to see if ChatGPT actually made even a small dent in Google search's market share or if the market itself shrunk due to it. All I see is hype, while Google's ad revenue from search increases (unfortunately).
Not enough for people to make the switch.
If I were to take on Google, the approach would be search plus something else.
No one will beat Google just on traditional search.