Google's home-grown recipe metadata format, and a single WordPress plugin to create recipe blogs, are the reason you can't find a decent recipe on Google.
Google's search engine is, without a doubt, superior to all alternatives. The fact that it's full of ads and junk is a conscious choice. Google could turn all that crap off tomorrow, and it would go back to being the best search results. Nobody has invested as much money in accurate results as Google has, and nobody will get close for years.
Search is, itself, dying. Search is probably one of the hardest things you can do with technology. We've gotten to the point that there's just too much shit to search through in too many ways. We need to stop relying on search, and start curating knowledge. "That's impossible", you say; I direct you to Wikipedia.org.
pretty much what we're up to at Breeze -- we currently curate internally, gradually opening up public curation -- dm if want to test some of our upcoming topic searches ahead of public release
Google's search engine is, without a doubt, superior to all alternatives. The fact that it's full of ads and junk is a conscious choice. Google could turn all that crap off tomorrow, and it would go back to being the best search results. Nobody has invested as much money in accurate results as Google has, and nobody will get close for years.
Search is, itself, dying. Search is probably one of the hardest things you can do with technology. We've gotten to the point that there's just too much shit to search through in too many ways. We need to stop relying on search, and start curating knowledge. "That's impossible", you say; I direct you to Wikipedia.org.