Very cool effort but just the first thing I tried which is a mega common search for everyone. "Denver weather."
Took a while to load, and only gave me short text of current conditions.
When I did "denver weather forecast" it gave a bit more and showed results on the right from Wolfram and others but they don't tell me anything. Wolfram is current conditions and wind tomorrow. Next one just meta description for weather underground.
It's going to snow tomorrow. That's what people are searching for.
Google gets this stuff and makes that info super visually accessible.
I really don't get the hate on their search quality. If it has gone down I haven't experienced this outside of mega spam things like recipes.
But I still experience the black magic of typing in some vague thing you are trying to remember and somehow they know what it is.
I've been trying not to be off-topic or self-promotional on this thread because it has so much other great discussion, and it needs a separate thread, but I wanted to answer your question quickly. Thanks sincerely for the feedback and for trying it out. We'd really love to chat more with you about this if you're open to it. The project is still an alpha and we have lots of work to do. We outline some of the good and bad things on our About page, including that it's weak at local searches (like weather or businesses or localizing to region) and there is too much spam in product reviews and ecommerce especially.
My own feeling is that the spam and ad problem (and therefore actual result quality) on Google is at its worst for categories like finance, health and travel. Commercial promotion has really taken over there. For many people, ads are essentially spam when they take over the entire screen of results (try, say, "best home loans in the US").
There is huge variation though. Some searches are still pure. Thanks again and please feel welcome to reach out to chat more about this!
Took a while to load, and only gave me short text of current conditions.
When I did "denver weather forecast" it gave a bit more and showed results on the right from Wolfram and others but they don't tell me anything. Wolfram is current conditions and wind tomorrow. Next one just meta description for weather underground.
It's going to snow tomorrow. That's what people are searching for.
Google gets this stuff and makes that info super visually accessible.
I really don't get the hate on their search quality. If it has gone down I haven't experienced this outside of mega spam things like recipes.
But I still experience the black magic of typing in some vague thing you are trying to remember and somehow they know what it is.