[iamnothere]

I agree, but lately I've noticed that DDG's results have been trending in the same direction. Maybe I'm just imagining things? (To be clear, I still find it generally better than Google for day-to-day search.)

I long for the return of an Altavista-like "dumb" search engine with proper "hard" boolean support. My brain is hardwired to think that way and I strongly prefer it. I understand that this wouldn't be useful for everyone, but I don't care. How on earth does it make sense to have only one kind of search engine for all of humanity.

[fileeditview]

I could imagine that the future of search engines is more specialization in different topics. As the content in the web keeps growing it only makes sense to only "search in a specific corner".

Maybe it's a good time to be innovative here..

[repolfx]

It makes sense because a search engine is a vastly expensive thing to run, there aren't enough users like you to be interesting to advertisers, and you aren't willing to pay the huge sums it would require to make such a niche (useless) search engine sustainable.