The attitude below: "Well, duh, what did you expect, I'm sick of these HN posts" is a depressing, cynical take.
Google is the search engine, and if a business, or a thought, or a piece of information, doesn't show up there, then it's invisible to 95% of the (Western) human population that doesn't use duckduckgo or Bing or whatever failed alternatives there are.*
I do find it very amusing that I'm not the only one that uses reddit as a keyword in search results, because the results are almost spot on.
* - Yes, I use duckduckgo as my default, but use g! a lot because the results aren't superb for tech items, and it too falls prey to SEO type manipulation with dubious stuff at the top, in my experience.
Google is the search engine, and if a business, or a thought, or a piece of information, doesn't show up there, then it's invisible to 95% of the (Western) human population that doesn't use duckduckgo or Bing or whatever failed alternatives there are.*
I do find it very amusing that I'm not the only one that uses reddit as a keyword in search results, because the results are almost spot on.
* - Yes, I use duckduckgo as my default, but use g! a lot because the results aren't superb for tech items, and it too falls prey to SEO type manipulation with dubious stuff at the top, in my experience.