• Dreeg Ocedam@lemmy.ml
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    It is possible to appeal to the larger crowd without a ton of marketing, see Signal recently for example!

    And it’s not like they’re not capable of doing stuff, on their front-page they advertise the service private.sh, in partnership with Private Internet Access.

    Results are decent

    I don’t believe that you actually think that.

    Edit: I quoted the wrong part, I meant I didn’t beleive you when you said “ui in general looks good”

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      4 years ago

      Signal was just lucky, one tweet brought it glory. I didn’t use it much yet but from what I can tell yes results decent for an independent search engine.

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        Signal was already being used by non tech-savvy people, and it was able to gain that much popularity because its UX is decent enough.

        I quoted the wrong part, I meant:

        ui in general looks good

        I don’t believe you actually think that.

        The results themselves are somewhat decent.

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          Yes I really do like the UI. It screams Web 1.0 and it’s beautiful, I love classic web UIs. I just really like how they look, I really don’t like the generic and bland look of modern UIs of the web services of today, with some exceptions.