[QueridoGuy]

I don’t think it’s easy to make such successor. However, I think the best approach into making a better search engine is to start with meta search engine, and collect analytical results of users decisions. At the same time, that search engine needs to develop its own. If you stay with meta engine, not many is going to find it authentic, and it would be a cluster. However when you start as meta engine then you implement your own engine using it, that’s when users will be comfortable in using

[freediver]

Re meta not being authentic - would you say the same is true for DuckDuckGo?

[QueridoGuy]

I guess the less harsh word that I wanted to say is reliable.

DDG has it’s own community. It’s growing, but I don’t think it will catch up with google. There are other factors too.

As for authenticity. I think people interpret DDG as unwanted, unfortunately. Because it was frequently set as home page as a bundle. If you search its name, you will find people frequently asking “is it a virus”.

It’s hard to advertise an engine these days without being viewed as a forced advertising. But there are better tactics like offering incentives.