M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable
It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
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It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing
Not sure about Logitech, but most other companies where I need to download driver software it’s an absolute crapshoot. Search engines used to be good for implementing complex search on your site without need to spin up a custom search logic yourself.
Google still have an API and SDK for if you want to use Google Search on your own site.
Another problem with everyone doing a search engine is that they can have a widely-disparate featureset, and I'm very unlikely to spend enough time on any one site to familiarize myself with a given featureset. Maybe one or two sites, like github.com. But if I'm just looking for a download of software for a given product? Nah.
Maybe if everyone used local Search Engine X -- like Harvest or something. Or if everyone agreed on a search syntax to support.
Google also used to, in their early days, sell a search appliance that companies could use locally to provide searching. I'd guess that that probably contains enough trade secrets and stuff now that they don't want to hand it out any more.