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Re: Anyone Know of Search Superior to Google?

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On 20 Jun 2025 19:52:20 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:42:52 +0000, Farley Flud wrote:
> 
>> I don't care too much about page ranking, but I do expect that the
>> somewhat arcane information that my web site provides will be found if
>> certain search results are requested, and with Google so far it is not.
> 
> Are you familiar with SEO?
>

Non sequitur.

To deal with Google's algorithm I would have to establish a series
of dummy web pages that linked to my web page, and I understand that
is what many sites actually do.

But that is not the purpose of web search.  A search for content "X"
should return all web sites that deal with content "X" and not just
the few that may have attained widespread linking.

Apparently Google does not do this, although it seems that Bing
and DuckDuckGo do (although this needs much more study).

It all reduces to the basic conundrum: How are other sites going
to ever link to my site if they can't even find it in the first
place?

There may also be another factor.  Most independent web sites
today are not actually "independent."  Rather they are hosted
by WordPress, GitHub, and other organizations that are directly
linked to Google.  In contrast, I finance my own site and I am
not "owned" by anyone.  Thus, in Google's eyes I may just be
insignificant dust in the wind. 

But Google is still the main portal for search and may be
forever.  People will always converge on the perceived "winner"
and ignore all else.



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