(There is good discussion on this article on Hacker News and Reddit)

If anyone tells you google search is the best engine, this article has counter-arguments.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    26 days ago

    I know there are search engines that are better than Google, but it’s becoming mathematically impossible to make a truly good search engine these days. Basically everyone is creating infinite AI generated content… and all that content is optimized for computers to read, not humans.

    We need a fundamental shift in how we find information, and I’m not sure what that solution will be.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      7·
      26 days ago

      People have suggested web rings, but most people don’t care much.

      Most users are kind of learned helplessness and don’t really try much different.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      25 days ago

      Math isn’t the problem, when you search “tetris attack snes” and the results are all “tetris,” and then clicking “did you mean what you actually wrote?” returns “nothing on the internet resembles those three words, you freak.”

  • TomMasz@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    26 days ago

    I haven’t heard anyone say Google is the best in a very long time. But people keep using it because they either don’t know or don’t like change. Deals to make it the default in many browsers certainly help keep it going.

  • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    26 days ago

    This article also says Reddit is the best searched site. So take that with a warehouse full of salt.

  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    25 days ago

    Can’t there be an alternative like a user-curated search engine? Users could label their favorite sites with the proper keywords and then the community could up/downvote the results for quality control.

    • heftig@beehaw.org
      3·
      25 days ago

      Would be just as vulnerable to automated SEO unless there’s a significant barrier to being able to label and vote, such as invitation-only groups.

      And don’t we have this already, almost? Filter Mastodon hashtags for links or add UI for hashtags to Lemmy. Or use full text search.