Launch HN: Andi (YC W22) – Q&A based, ad-free, anti-spam search engine
I tried [when is ambulance coming out], and you did correctly understand it was referring to the movie. But the result is strictly worse than the same search on Google (which also knew it was a movie, but actually gave an instant answer to the question rather just a IMDB link, and answered the question correctly for my location unlike the IMDB page). Bing also returned an instant answer, but their answer is even more wrong (the release was pushed back by a couple of months, Bing claims that the movie would be released at the future date of February 2022).<p>Then I tried [will there be a wheat shortage this year?], and the top result was a lunatic fringe prepper blog, from which you extracted a confident answer that there will definitely be a wheat shortage. Google doesn&#x27;t try to answer the question (which I&#x27;d argue is correct for something this speculative), and only links to reputable news sources all of which look relevant. Bing is the same, but mixes in some more alternative results at the bottom of the page.<p>Then, since you said that this worked best in a conversational manner I asked [is it due to the war?], obviously referring to the previous question. Rather than keep the context of that previous search in mind, you replied with information on the current local weather. (In Fahrenheit, for a location in Europe).<p>At this point, combined with how incredibly slow the searches are, my goodwill would be gone as a real user.