I don't think there will be a search engine better than Google in the near future (may not forever). Best search engines today will have to throw results based on user preferences to stay relevant and compete with Google's results. Cracking the perfect semantic search (chat bots) may change this but Google may have advantage here just because of the amount of data it has.
Any great algorithm, unfortunately will be limited by the data on which it will be trained. Google has this unique advantage.
I don't think search needs to be made better. There are more important problems. That doesn't mean there aren't innovations to be had in search engines but it does not have to be better search algos.
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I don't think there will be a search engine better than Google in the near future (may not forever). Best search engines today will have to throw results based on user preferences to stay relevant and compete with Google's results. Cracking the perfect semantic search (chat bots) may change this but Google may have advantage here just because of the amount of data it has. Any great algorithm, unfortunately will be limited by the data on which it will be trained. Google has this unique advantage.
I don't think search needs to be made better. There are more important problems. That doesn't mean there aren't innovations to be had in search engines but it does not have to be better search algos.