How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died - eviltoast
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      1 year ago

      This just seems equivalent to e.g. bing’s AI search. The only thing that stands out to me are the names of their investors, not the product - they’re not advertising themselves as privacy-respecting, for example.

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        Can you recommend a Bing based search engine that works comparably? I’ve used DDG and it’s ok, not great. (I compare most search engines to Google of 10 years ago, which was wonderful.)

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          Sorry, can’t say that I have anything specific to suggest that hasn’t already been mentioned in the comments! As the original article shows, getting a search experience that’s good, privacy-conscious, and financially sustainable is evidently extremely difficult. If big tech companies continue to implode it might get a little easier to compete though.