

Direct answering is key as the open Web with high quality organic links is long gone and search results with blue links and keyword matching are now a legacy technology.Ī key question is then how many direct answers (in infoboxes, bolded) Google is currently capable of. In terms of shameless plugs I also suggest YottaAnswers (I am a founder) which is a smart AI system capable of returning billions of direct answers.

I founded a distributed search engine more than 10 years ago but we were a decade too early, not that it really matters now. You.com and Neeva, as well as others are getting in there too. Kagi is nice too (I know the team as a disclaimer but their effort is a good one). This decline is out in the open as can be easily seen on Google itself.ĭuckDuckGo is very good and they have been steady in terms of their results and growth for years.

Good thread, there are more and more alternatives as Google has been in decline for years in terms of quality of results.
