Google doesn't work anymore ?

tantedante@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 292 points –
the current state of search engines (music video)
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What's your opinion? Does google really "not work" anymore? Are there any better search engines? Why did the quality of search results go down? I honestly stumbled onto this question through this music video, what is ironic in it's own way i feel...

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Mojeek has been an interesting alternative. I do find myself using google as a backup when I’m not getting what I need, but Mojeek does tend to present very different results.

I don’t think any other search engine, including DuckDuckGo, has its own web crawler like mojeek does. DuckDuckGo is security based, but still google in the end (similar to how most browsers are actually chromium). It apparently also uses a different term algorithm so you have to readjust how you search because it doesn’t do anything predictive or “smart” in its searching for results.

map of search engines since i found this website a few minutes ago i consider using mojeek too... and i was surprised how few actual search engine crawlers exist....

Yeah I think I was simultaneously surprised about that, and how long Mojeek had been in the game.