[tussa]

I often find myself searching on HN, then Reddit (via google) and then good old sad google, in that order.

When Google arrived, it had the solution people were desperately waiting for. It was pretty much everything we wanted. And it even "wasn't evil!"

Now it feels like people at Google are just making sure they'll qualify for their annual bonus with total disregard to what happens to the company.

I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day. But Google, don't worry, they'll "just be a search company".

[vik0]

>I forecast that in the next 1-3 years, we'll see another company steal the search market, just like Google it back in the day.

Really? Do you think this company exists today?

[rixthefox]

* huge asterisk since I pay to use it and feel the need to disclose that upfront.

Kagi is a very strong and viable candidate IMHO. The search is actually useful and I’ve noticed on a few occasions that my search was “too focused” and yielded “no results found” and I had to rethink my query to better find what I was looking for. Google on the other hand would have spared no opportunity to spam my results with ads even if it couldn’t find what I was looking for. Anything to put more ads in my face.

[tussa]

We'd know about them if they existed as a company today.

Remember that what became Google was Larry's and Sergey's PhD project that no one wanted to buy.

[calderknight]

I would guess the new chatbots have already stolen a bit of the market.