Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005-Google?

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DuckDuckGo: Bang Landing Page

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DuckDuckGo: Bang

Search thousands of sites directly from DuckDuckGo

And if you really need to, DDG !bangs[0] make a search as simple as "!g mother google help me". The keyword thing is also available in Firefox as a browser feature, and elsewhere I'm sure, but nevertheless, it makes switching to DDG easier. (Plus I can directly go to the wiki page by using "!w", "!gm" for google maps, etc.) [0] https://duckduckgo.com/bang.

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YaCy Landing Page
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YaCy

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to...
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> 2) Hardware costs are too high. Which is why the next big search engine should be distributed: https://yacy.net.

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Brave Search Landing Page

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Brave Search

Private search that puts you first, not big tech

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Gigablast

Gigablast is a powerful, opensource, new search engine that does real-time indexing! Features
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Ha, yes, I've done that at https://gigablast.com/ .

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DuckDuckGo Landing Page
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DuckDuckGo

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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I think DuckDuckGo is closer to what you want. Same results for everyone, better privacy, and they're proactive about improving their results. https://duckduckgo.com/ Part of the problem is that there's a lot more low-quality content to wade through now than there was in 2005. I think the Google of 2005 would have trouble delivering quality results today also.

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Lobsters

Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. The site is driven by ...
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How about just a meritocratic rating? Even here on HN I would appreciate some sort of weight on expert/experienced opinion. Although in theory I like the idea that every thought is judged on its own, the context of the author is more relevant the deeper the subject. That's one of the reasons I still read https://lobste.rs. It has a niche audience with industry experience.

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Neeva Landing Page

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Neeva

Ad-free, private search

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Whoogle Search Landing Page

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Whoogle Search

Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting Google meta-search engine

Not sure if this is any close to what you’re trying to find, but there’s https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search.

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Swisscows

Swisscows is the data-safe search engine and the absolute alternative to Google. Swisscows does not monitor and does not store any data and does not show any pornographic content.

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