<story><title>Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?</title><text>Context: Recently I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that almost every search ends with &amp;#x27; reddit&amp;#x27;. This is because msotly everything on google search shows either ads or content farm articles and listicles.&lt;p&gt;This is also slowly getting into more niche topics too.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterGauze</author><text>Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.&lt;p&gt;I wish people would stop saying something is &amp;quot;dying&amp;quot; when they personally dont like it anymore or don&amp;#x27;t use it as much, you don&amp;#x27;t speak for the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>traveler01</author><text>I tried to use another search engines for a while.
Tried Ectosia, tried Duckduckgo, even gave Bing a chance. Google just gives me better results...</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?</title><text>Context: Recently I&amp;#x27;ve noticed that almost every search ends with &amp;#x27; reddit&amp;#x27;. This is because msotly everything on google search shows either ads or content farm articles and listicles.&lt;p&gt;This is also slowly getting into more niche topics too.&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else feel the same?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>OtterGauze</author><text>Despite the consensus of Google from people who know about alternatives or ways to avoid it, Google is still the most mainstream and de-facto search engine in atleast the English speaking world, and is the top most visited website in the world.&lt;p&gt;I wish people would stop saying something is &amp;quot;dying&amp;quot; when they personally dont like it anymore or don&amp;#x27;t use it as much, you don&amp;#x27;t speak for the world.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dcminter</author><text>Betteridge&amp;#x27;s law tells us the answer is no. But there is a real phenomenon - Google is becoming less useful.&lt;p&gt;It used to be that a challenger would get no traction because why would one bother when Google always popped out good answers to searches. Now... I&amp;#x27;d at least try something new to skip all the makeuseof, wikihow, and similar dross without having to explicitly constrain it to reddit.&lt;p&gt;So no, it&amp;#x27;s not dying. But this is how it could die.</text></comment>