What do you think a successor to Google Search looks like?

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Thought Experiment: let's rethink the search engine. How does a small team of engineers, with tiny compute resources, build a new kind of information-finder?The old model of centralized crawling/link/text-pattern-matching (a.k.a. Google) seems so 1998. So arbitrary, so open to manipulation (e.g. the Boris Johnson story today). I want something fundamentally different, something that takes into the account the sheer size of the internet today. Something not manipulatable by "SEO".

tinytrader · Accepted Answer

What if your search engine was just made up of sites you add to a personalised "pool" of sites. This way your news comes from a consistent source and/or your technical questions are answered by your favourite dev community site, etc. Certain sites could be tagged for relevancy around a certain search keyword.That's my two cents :)

QueridoGuy · Answer

I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s easy to make such successor. However, I think the best approach into making a better search engine is to start with meta search engine, and collect analytical results of users decisions. At the same time, that search engine needs to develop its own. If you stay with meta engine, not many is going to find it authentic, and it would be a cluster. However when you start as meta engine then you implement your own engine using it, that&rsquo;s when users will be comfortable in using

pi-squared · Answer

Think what problem you are facing with the web right now and how you would solve it. Don't solve a problem for a thousand or a million people because all of them will have different problems. Start with you. Do you not like the interface? Do some css play, mockups on gimp or pen and paper.
What are your queries usually? Take a look at your own Google history, find and try to group what you are looking for and what would you ideally find that Google/other search engines don't satisfy.
I understand your desire to do something "revolutionary". But most things are incremental.

hans1729 · Answer

Uh, you might want to look into the disciple of Information Retrieval.I'm confused by your question: what exactly do you want? It seems like the SEO-story of Johnson caught you off guard, and now you're like "Google search bad". Then: well, what exactly do you know about search algorithms? What better product do you want to develop? Asking HN before you learned anything about Information Retrieval (because that's what it feels like to me) seems inadequate.

ToFab123 · Answer

I don't think it looks like anything. It will sound like something. Think star trek computer.