Hacker News with Generative AI: Search Engines

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 3 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 3 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 4 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
100 points by jonbaer 4 days ago | 12 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 6 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 8 days ago | 2 comments
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi (kagi.com)
Kagi Search Stats
Search Engines, Privacy, Data Analysis
378 points by lucgommans 10 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 10 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 13 days ago | 51 comments
Anthropic Uses Brave Search (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic Trust Center: Brave Search added as a subprocessor (via) Yesterday I was trying to figure out if Anthropic has rolled their own search index for Claude's new web search feature or if they were working with a partner. Here's confirmation that they are using Brave Search:
Generative AI, Search Engines, Privacy, Brave Browser
9 points by skadamat 16 days ago | 1 comments
Claude can now search the web (anthropic.com)
You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Web Search
1233 points by meetpateltech 17 days ago | 726 comments
Kagi is a better search engine than Google – but it costs $10 a month (theverge.com)
Google has felt like a product in decline for a long time. Kagi offers a new, better vision for search, but the only way it works is if you’re willing to pay.
Search Engines, Google, Subscription Services
19 points by isaacfrond 18 days ago | 6 comments
Show HN: I indexed 25,000 Shopify stores to build an embedded shopping API (searchagora.com)
"My wife asked me for a pair of red shoes for Christmas. I quickly typed it into Google and found a combination of ads from large retailers and links to a 1948 movie called 'Red Shoes'. I decided to build Agora to solve my own problem (and stay happily married)."
E-commerce, APIs, Search Engines, Shopping, Entrepreneurship
9 points by pencildiver 19 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: We made a photo search engine for homes for sale (ycombinator.com)
We're a small team of 3 engineers, and wanted to make a better way to look for for properties online.
Real Estate, Search Engines, Show HN
71 points by travisleestreet 20 days ago | 60 comments
AI Search Has a Citation Problem (cjr.org)
AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines.
Artificial Intelligence, Search Engines, Journalism, Technology
25 points by nobody9999 24 days ago | 9 comments
DuckDuckGo's AI beats Perplexity in one big way – and it's free to use (zdnet.com)
I've been a fan of DuckDuckGo for a long time. I find the search engine to be far more trustworthy than Google and I do enjoy my privacy. But when I heard that the company was dipping its webbed feet into the AI waters, my initial reaction was a roll of the eyes.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Technology
14 points by mitchbob 26 days ago | 2 comments
AI search engine study finds wrong cites in 60%+ of queries; Grok3 had 94% wrong (cjr.org)
AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity, with nearly one in four Americans now saying they have used AI in place of traditional search engines.
AI, Search Engines, Research, Accuracy, Generative AI
12 points by thoughtpeddler 27 days ago | 0 comments
Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index (ecosia.org)
If you’ve been following our work on the Digital Markets Act, you know we’re always pushing for tech that’s more fair, competitive, and more democratic. We are proud to share the next step in our journey towards tech independence - building our very own search index!
Privacy, Search Engines, Europe
543 points by amarcheschi 28 days ago | 176 comments
Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux.
Linux, Web Browsers, Search Engines
376 points by ulrischa 29 days ago | 226 comments
Google begins testing AI-only search results (arstechnica.com)
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Gemini
35 points by nreece 31 days ago | 53 comments
Google is expanding AI Overviews worldwide, and adding an AI Mode (theverge.com)
The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too.
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Google
7 points by isaacfrond 32 days ago | 2 comments
Expanding AI Overviews and Introducing AI Mode (google)
AI Overviews are getting a Gemini 2.0 upgrade and expanding to more people. Plus, we’re introducing a new experimental AI Mode.
Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Google, Search Engines
52 points by meetpateltech 32 days ago | 61 comments
Ask HN: Which Search Engine do you use? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Which Search Engine do you use?
Search Engines, Web Search, Technology, Community
5 points by b8 37 days ago | 12 comments
AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data (elenaverna.com)
AI is quietly upending the business models of major content sites. Platforms like WebMD, G2, and Chegg - once fueled by SEO and ad revenue - are losing traffic as AI-powered search and chatbots deliver instant answers. Users no longer need to click through pages when AI summarizes everything in seconds. Brian Balfour calls this phenomenon Product-Market Fit Collapse, a fitting term, marking it as the next big shift in tech.
Artificial Intelligence, Business, Technology, Content Creation, Search Engines
276 points by corentin88 37 days ago | 311 comments
Show HN: Hexle: A powerful way to search for papers and connect your ideas (hexle.ai)
We're not on mobile (yet)But you can try our product on desktop
Search Engines, Research Tools, Academic Research, AI
7 points by dillondesilva 38 days ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Why do you trust Kagi? (ycombinator.com)
I frequently see high praise for Kagi here, both for the quality of the search results as well as the ostensibly customer-friendly business decisions.
Search Engines, Privacy, User Experience, Business Models
14 points by monroewalker 40 days ago | 23 comments
Show HN: Exa (YC S21) – embeddings search agent with >20x recall than Google (websets.exa.ai)
<h2>Find the perfect list of results</h2>
Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Web Search
28 points by willbryk720 40 days ago | 4 comments