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Comment by bmmayer1 | Hacker News Reader

My first search on Alexandria was "UTC time". Google gives me the current time in UTC, which is all I needed. Alexandria gave me...a lot of links to click to find what I'm looking for.

Google search is a lot better than people give it credit for.

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I agree, Google's instant answers are quite good and have improved but actually searching to find a site seems to be getting worse and is riddled with paid sites on the top.

When I need a clock I'll be sure to use Google.

Strictly speaking, that's more in the domain of BonziBuddy or Alexa than internet search engine.

What Google arguably struggles with is surfacing relevant documents, that is... search.

You still have the current UTC time in the top links. Googles knowledge graph is a part of the problem with their results.

This doesn't add up, at all. I have a clock on my computer. This new search engine doesn't function like a clock for you, so Google Search is better.

Kagi does this. I have switched 100% to Kagi, not affiliated.

we're exploring adding instant answers in clean way at Breeze; leaning towards using open-source library &/or external API to compute vs. building in-house

also adding premium tier that's alerts + ad free + feeling lucky that would take user to top result, which is a UTC page, re: https://breezethat.com/?q=UTC+time

I just tried breezethat and had to scroll past 6 ads (two screenfuls on my iPhone 10) to see a single result. I know ads are necessary but this is punitive.

yes, mobile is awful right now; we've mostly fixed that issue on laptop / desktop

4 of 6 are google's and have to include -- iterating some designs internally that refactor how they're presented on mobile

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