Creating a search engine for fun and because Google sucks

Creating a thin, non-working wrapper around DuckDuckGo as a "hire me" ad, claiming it's a search engine and mentioning Google in the headline because it'll get more clicks.

So your "search engine" uses Google and DuckDuckGo to get results? and you are creating it because "Google sucks"? Am I missing something here?

The phonebook capabilities of pretty much all Google alternatives suck. Google is currently the only search engine that actually works for local queries (i.e. phone repair in &lt;local town&gt;).<p>Alternatives while probably fine in America, suck in the Nordics. I think people forget just how much search traffic happens in this category.

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I have been thinking about this. I’d like to index the blogosphere and some knowledge base sites and stuff and exclude most of the Top1000 websites.<p>I imagine I could do it on consumer hardware for less than $10-20k.<p>Perhaps common crawl has done much of the heavy lifting already and I just have an indexing task.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vincents.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;creating-a-search-engine&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vincents.dev&#x2F;blog&#x2F;creating-a-search-engine&#x2F;</a>?<p>I visited the page on mobile and I have to scroll horizontally back and forth before I can read?<p>That is not fun at all.

Google is a fine search engine.

This article doesn&#x27;t scale to fit the window on Firefox on android.

Duckduckgo is now particularly riddled by AI spam. The top 5 summaries for lots of searches now begin with some variation of &quot;In the fast-moving world of...&quot;. Utter shit.<p>It&#x27;d be so easy to filter I wonder why they&#x2F;Microsoft don&#x27;t bother. Oh, wait...