[bambax]

How is Google Search dead? When by your own admission you still use it with a "prefix", instead of searching directly on Reddit or SO.

Not only is Google Search not dead by any measure, but 1/ most websites are completely incapable of implementing a local search function that actually works, and 2/ all of Google competitors try to copy its features (and do a bad job at it).

I don't work for Google, I don't own Google stock. But Google's dominance is hard to not see.

[Beaver117]

Because they can't monetize only results from those sites. If I don't prefix "reddit" I'll get dozens of websites I've never even heard of, before an actual answer. Even wikipedia is sometimes on the second or third page, everything else is spam.