I'm wondering if there is a 'better' search engine than Google, in terms of breadth and depth of information accessed. There are times often enough when I am searching for a particular phrase, maybe lyrics to an obscure song, or a person's name when Google just doesn't come up with what I am looking for.
It's possible that the people I am looking for don't have an internet presence or the particular phrase isn't transcribed anywhere, but I figure a search engine as powerful as google should at least be able to millions of things I am very closely looking for but not exactly. (Yes, I have tried quotes, using key phrases, omitting others.) It just seems weird that for being the behemoth that it is, the search engine is strangely limited in some ways.
Anyway, I'm wondering if you all have recommendations for better search engines, or can explain to me why Google isn't somehow artificially limiting search results for no reason, or what resources you all use when trying to find difficult and obscure information.
>Non-US company >not respect your freedom >ugly interface fuck off mongoloid
Robert Martinez
>wanting US companies >thinking US companies give a shit about your freedom You're an absolute retard.
Austin Walker
DuckDuckGo. Yandex spy on their users.
Tyler Cruz
>Google doesn't
Christopher Morales
DuckDuckGo sells your data too.
Leo Diaz
Still better than your shithole coutry with noname companies cucked by your governmant.
Nolan Martinez
2006 google was infinitely better. Google is so obsessed with """"helping"""" you search that when you look for "how to close" it instead searches for "how to open" and when you look for "buy new windows" it looks for "buy osx" when you're actually looking for new windows. Nevermind their insistence on providing politically motivated results and censoring what they don't like, which further mitigates the quality of results they provide.
Bing is significantly worse because while they try to apply the same tricks, M$ uses pure rule-based systems when google uses a mix of rule-based and ML.
Other search engines are significantly worse because they take results from bing and google and mix them together which fucks everything up with almost only purely incorrect results.
Basically any search engine that stops being fancy will automatically be orders of magnitudes better than google. Just index pages in the classical way and crawl in the usual way using a usual indexing scheme and you have successfully overtaken google.
Andrew Butler
[citation needed]
Brody Adams
Red pill is I go to your mum's house and browse there with her accounts while she sucking me off.
Colton Phillips
Related question, since when does putting the search term under quotation marks stopped working, for looking up exact phrases? For example, the other day I wanted to look up any mentions of "e=" and "religion" together, but Google flat out ignores the "e=" bit.
Angel Reed
He only uses Yandex because of the beautiful women.
Jonathan Diaz
TITS OR GTFO
Jonathan Hernandez
CYKA
Jaxon Howard
honestly, it would be cool to have a search engine that ignored results from social media, that includes news sites, wikipedia and blogs (whatever hosted in blogspot wordpress tumblr).
William Jackson
kek
Nicholas Ramirez
(((tits)))
Michael Hernandez
startpage
Connor Morales
actually, why aren't there any projects trying to build distributed search engines, dns server, etc without any regulations ?
Daniel Miller
There have been, but they're blacklisted by the media just like tor and i2p. Governments pay the media to shill against anything that isn't regulated.
Thomas Walker
really ? can you name some ?
Eli Foster
[searchterm] -blogspot -facebook -wsj - wikipedia -tumblr
???
Xavier Wilson
>You are so unsecure about your privacy that you only use things that are completly safe Oh man, are you guys doing something illegal or why do you care so much about this shit? The government will give a shit about what you do then.
Also give us an example of obscure search that Google fails to deliver and maybe I can teach you a trick or two.
I'm a search sniper by the way.
Joseph Hughes
>Basically any search engine that stops being fancy will automatically be orders of magnitudes better than google. Just index pages in the classical way and crawl in the usual way using a usual indexing scheme and you have successfully overtaken google. You don't know what you're talking about. A dumb index search will just give you billions of Viagra website hits. The Internet is cock full of low quality crap filled with indexable keywords and SEO tecniques.
Austin Reyes
You know how a lot of people in CS do projects to learn CS like develop their own OS or compiler? I've given some thought to doing something like this and it might be a more practical project to spend time on learning more about depths of CS. What do you guys think, working on a search engine project be a good idea and better use of time than something like a hobby OS or compiler? I mean if you where trying to work through textbooks learning about data mining, ML, etc wouldn't this be a good hobby project to apply what you're learning?
This is true. But wouldn't it be better to apply more than just classical algorithms to this, like implement some of the best research and techniques from the fields of ML, AI, etc?
Also I have a question about the legality of this. Do most sites consider it a breach of TOS and is crawling and storing their sites in your database as illegal as pirating/copyright infringement?
