Reading up on Brave Search
3 deep · digging since nov 28, 25
- Apparently Google hates us now
HN commenters argue that Google's services have degraded due to enshittification, driving users to alternatives like Kagi, Yandex, and DuckDuckGo.
- I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
An open-source project maintainer loses search-engine ranking to a copycat .net site, and HN commenters debate SEO fixes, trademark strategies, and the broader decay of Google search quality.
- Search | The Moat of the Search Index - by FD - Robonomics
The author argues that the traditional search index moat is largely gone because AI assistants like ChatGPT use multi-hop reasoning across multiple sources, hiding individual search failures.