Hacker News with Generative AI: Search Engines

Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites (ssrn.com)
We study the competitive impact of content moderation by a dominant online platform.
Content Moderation, Search Engines, Market Dynamics, Online Platforms, Economics
84 points by amadeuspagel 2 days ago | 62 comments
Google Search AI invents plausible meanings for any phrase (bsky.app)
Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines
4 points by freediver 2 days ago | 0 comments
Break Google's Search Monopoly Without Breaking the Web (open-web-advocacy.org)
In late 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in conjunction with state attorneys general representing 11 states, brought a landmark antitrust case against Google for unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in the general search engine market.
Antitrust, Google, Search Engines, Competition, Law
4 points by brycewray 2 days ago | 0 comments
ChatGPT head tells court OpenAI is interested in buying Chrome (arstechnica.com)
The remedy phase of Google's antitrust trial is underway, with the government angling to realign Google's business after the company was ruled a search monopolist.
OpenAI, Google, Antitrust, Search Engines, Technology
8 points by its-kostya 3 days ago | 2 comments
I Fell in Love with Kagi (podfeet.com)
I’ve been advocating the follow the money philosophy for over a decade now — your data, and hence you privacy, are valuable, so you need to choose carefully who you entrust them to, and the best way to figure out who is and who isn’t trustworthy is to understand how they pay their bills.
Privacy, Search Engines, Business Models
18 points by speckx 3 days ago | 0 comments
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users (kagi.com)
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies not for their acclaim but for their true potential to support our mission.
Search Engines, Privacy, Technology
490 points by angilr 8 days ago | 282 comments
Live List of SearXNG Instances (searx.space)
This website shows the SearXNG public instances. It is updated every 24 hours, except the response times which are updated every 3 hours.
Search Engines, Open Source, Privacy, Tools
5 points by vednig 9 days ago | 0 comments
Mozilla's CEO weighs in on U.S. vs. Google (mozilla.org)
The CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, provided insights about the U.S. v. Google LLC case on search competition ahead of the trial slated to begin April 21, 2025.
Antitrust, Google, Mozilla, Legal Cases, Search Engines
5 points by TangerineDream 9 days ago | 0 comments
An update on our use of country code top-level domains (google)
When you’re searching on Google, we aim to provide the most useful information, and many times that includes providing locally relevant search results.
Search Engines, Domain Names, Google
9 points by Tomte 10 days ago | 3 comments
Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com (searchengineland.com)
Google will begin redirecting its country code top-level domain names (ccTLD) versions of its Google domain to Google.com.
Google, Domain Names, Search Engines, Web Development
33 points by lapcat 11 days ago | 30 comments
Meilisearch – search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search (github.com/meilisearch)
⚡ A lightning-fast search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow 🔍
Search Engines, AI, Software, API
151 points by modinfo 12 days ago | 73 comments
Blogroll.org (blogroll.org)
It’s become harder to uncover gems lost inside bloated search engines and silos of algorithmic societies that prefer you stay within (to better monetize you).
Search Engines, Web Browsing, Content Discovery, Social Media
10 points by Curiositry 12 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Has Google Search's index shrunk? (ycombinator.com)
I've noticed that when I'm finally able to force my way past its behind-the-scenes AI query butchering, the number of pages that it's able to return is limited. Much more so than even a few years ago. Is it conceivable that Google has not only curtailed its forward indexing, but also purged some of its historical index (particularly of less popular pages)?
Search Engines, Google, Web Indexing
16 points by h2zizzle 13 days ago | 10 comments
Netflix Tests New OpenAI-powered Search Engine to Recommend Shows, Movies (bloomberg.com)
Netflix Inc. is testing new search technology for subscribers that employs artificial intelligence to help them find TV shows and movies, expanding its use of the technology.
Netflix, Streaming Services, AI, Search Engines, Recommendations
9 points by mfiguiere 14 days ago | 1 comments
Searchception (mojeek.com)
In the early days of the internet, there was a clear distinction between browsers and search engines. You opened a browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer to go to a website. If you didn’t know the address, you visited a search engine to find it. But somewhere along the way, that clarity was engineered out of existence.
Search Engines, Internet History, Web Browsers, Technology
15 points by Sami_Lehtinen 15 days ago | 7 comments
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling 'Betrayed' (bloomberg.com)
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Business
4 points by bentobean 17 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Do you still use search engines? (ycombinator.com)
Today, I noticed that my behavior has shifted over the past few months. Right now, I exclusively use ChatGPT for any kind of search or question.
ChatGPT, Search Engines, AI, User Behavior
350 points by davidkuennen 18 days ago | 581 comments
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling 'Betrayed' (bloomberg.com)
In the absence of clear answers from Google, creators have struggled to discern how much of their pain is due to AI Overviews or due to other changes in search.
Google, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Website Development, Business
7 points by wslh 19 days ago | 1 comments
Yo Google, Thanks for the AI Overview but Your Search Sucks Now (sheep.horse)
As a developer I use Google dozens of times a day I Googled several times just writing this post, most recently for how to spell "disincentivizing" for reasons that will become clear for technical documentation. For the last 20 years it has been an incredible resource and I have always been amazed at how it could produce useful results for even the most oblique, misspelled, or just wrong search terms.
Search Engines, Google, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development
13 points by gbear605 22 days ago | 1 comments
Why does every site's search now insist on giving me what I don't search for? (ycombinator.com)
Google ignores "must have" quotes<p>Zocdoc insists on giving me appointments weeks away even when I set a date range<p>Amazon insists on showing me products that they can't deliver tomorrow.<p>What happened to deterministic search parameter results? It's like every search function now just take what I ask for as a suggestion and then ignores it.
Search Engines, User Experience, Online Shopping, Technology
33 points by sathackr 22 days ago | 18 comments
Search could be so much better. And I don't mean chatbots with web access (matterrank.ai)
Search could be so much better.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval
61 points by mfkhalil 23 days ago | 61 comments
Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with RL (arxiv.org)
Efficiently acquiring external knowledge and up-to-date information is essential for effective reasoning and text generation in large language models (LLMs).
AI, Reasoning, Search Engines, Reinforcement Learning
101 points by jonbaer 23 days ago | 13 comments
Kagi for Kids (kagi.com)
The Kagi Family Plan is perfect for families wanting to search smarter, emphasizing learning over consumption while respecting your family's privacy.
Family, Privacy, Search Engines, Education
198 points by ryanjamurphy 25 days ago | 166 comments
Building a search engine from scratch, in Rust: part 1 (jdrouet.github.io)
In the previous article, I introduced what project we're going to address in the following weeks: how to build a cross-platform search engine with encryption capabilities. Today, we'll have a look at the first technical challenge: how to store things on disk.
Rust, Search Engines, Programming, Software Development
26 points by todsacerdoti 28 days ago | 2 comments
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (kagi.com)
Kagi Search Stats
Search Engines, Privacy, Data Analysis
379 points by lucgommans 29 days ago | 182 comments
Crawl Order and Disorder (marginalia.nu)
A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains.
Search Engines, Web Crawling, Technical
65 points by ingve 30 days ago | 9 comments
Apple's $22B Loss Risk as Google Might Cease to Be Default Search Engine (gizmodo.com)
We’ve all overslept an alarm or missed a deadline, but has it ever cost you $20 billion? According to Ars Technica, it may have just happened to Apple, which apparently suffered from some decision paralysis that pissed off a federal judge and might cost the company its lucrative agreement with Google to make the company’s search engine the default on Apple devices.
Apple, Google, Search Engines, Lawsuits, Business
8 points by bentobean 31 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Recipe Search Engine for Cooking Enthusiasts (chefcodex.com)
The search engine for serious home cooks.
Cooking, Search Engines, Food, Recipes
10 points by losincos 31 days ago | 5 comments
I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back (wsj.com)
Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google’s own AI—do it better.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Google
41 points by Bostonian 31 days ago | 77 comments
Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites (searchmysite.net)
The searchmysite.net search engine is a niche search, focussing on the "indieweb" or "small web" or "digital gardens", i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites.
Search Engines, Open Source, Indie Web, Digital Gardens
265 points by OuterVale 32 days ago | 51 comments