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# Web Search is Primitive

Web search has improved significantly over the past several decades. However, web search is **still distressingly inadequate** for the needs of humanity. This document outlines our proposal for a next generation web search engine (provisionally "Phoebe") that will significantly reduce the current chasm between what humans need from search and what search provides now.

Some say that Google is unbeatable. That their size and tech makes competition (especially from a small organization) impossible. To an extent, we agree. Competing search engines will die out or be relegated to a niche audience *as long as* they compete with Google using the same methods and paradigms that Google is utilizing.

We have something significantly different to offer. Please read on.


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