Not really sure what to use for search now. DDG doesn't support IPv6 as I discovered last week while working on an #IPv6 only network. Neither does #Mojeek (and their language support is limited to ascii-only languages - even entering "français" it will ask "did you mean francais?" (same for umlauts) and Russian and Ukrainian aren't indexed at all).
Google and Bing are the only ones I know with IPv6 support.
We seem to be getting driven off the web, folks.
Finding something in the mid nineties required knowing something about the content of the page you might expect to find it on. I was pretty good with the old search engines.
Then Google entered with PageRank in 1998 and everything changed. In the office we'd state a question out loud during a conversation and then go type it verbatim into Google and it Just Worked.
Until about 5 years ago, when we started sliding back towards mid nineties level search, but now the haystack is much bigger...
Now, thanks to the size of the web, and the fact that nearly every website is collapsing under the weight of AI crawlers, it's not really feasible to build a search engine from scratch effectively.
Building a new web browser from scratch is also a difficult problem.
The web is dying. Perhaps its time has come. ⚰️
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