Ask HN: A new kind of search engine?
If Google would be defeated at some point, why would that be? What kind of search engine would you like to have?
- Google puts me in a bubble. They assume, that I have a single identity, a single set of interests that are related. While I would not always want completely unfiltered results, such as when I want to quickly get to a relevant common result with as few keywords as possible, I would like to be able to effortlessly switch between the bubbles the search engine thinks I belong to, i.e. to switch context, even things such as my language. Along with that I would want easy access to truly unfiltered results.
- An API.
- Advanced filters to really dig into the search results. Google is already pretty good at these, but sometimes even the Google Fu isn't strong enough.
- Some way to get rid of things like when you used to search for something, and the top result was always experts exchange and I would accidentally click on it. Every single time. I'm sure I was not alone, so there must have been some way to get better results.
- Full control over my search history. Full. Control. Heck, I'm even partially entitled to it by law, but it's still a PITA. I want to view, add, modify and permanently delete records. Or just turn the whole thing off. No, not "turn it off", as in hide it from myself, like I can now. I mean really turn it off.
- And of course everything Google already has, like (reverse) image search with filters, and the advanced search parameters, such as "site:domain.tld" and the range operator "it costs 100..900".
And definitely, better filtering. Being able to construct more sophisticated and targeted queries would be useful.
A site that did both with sufficient coverage of available websites would be nice.