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Any search engines with information cards like Google?

Posted by mercury
Tags: internet, google.search, ask.recommendations, search engines, features

The recent post on EU's search index got me thinking: the real reason I (personally) haven't been able to shift to other search engines (like duckduckgo; I currently cannot afford Kagi) is Google has these information cards that "summarize" useful information in an information card. For example, it can give you the recent results of the sports team you searched for. Or it can give you synopsis of a movie and the list of its cast and crew.

However, recently Google has started replacing these information cards with AI-generated content. Not to be against AI summaries, but the whole UX is pretty bad (I can't just click the cast member and go to their information card on Google); and it seems it is only going to get worse.

So my question: Are there any search engines that do this well?

I know duckduckgo has an information card which usually is a summary of the wikipedia page of whatever you searched for. I would use something like letterboxd or goodreads on the first go but I have found (a) the websites to be a bit clunky for a quick search (b) they are not as good for fuzzy search.

3 comments

  1. Minori
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    Unfortunately those APIs are expensive, so they're harder to find outside of paid search engines like Kagi.

    Unfortunately those APIs are expensive, so they're harder to find outside of paid search engines like Kagi.

    4 votes
  2. creesch
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    DuckDuckGo with "bangs" might help Like you can do !lb dune and it will go directly to letterboxd. I personally think Brave is a company of questionable morale and personally wouldn't want to use...

    DuckDuckGo with "bangs" might help Like you can do !lb dune and it will go directly to letterboxd.

    I personally think Brave is a company of questionable morale and personally wouldn't want to use it but their search does have infoboxes.

    Bing also does have infoboxes but as a terrible UX experience initially with an overload of clutter. Which you can mostly turn off but then you still get popups here and there and generally it is just as bad and often worse than google.

    3 votes
  3. fxgn
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    DDG does have plenty of them! They used to have a full list available, but for some reason they removed it. Here's an archived version from https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025701/duck.co/ia...

    DDG does have plenty of them! They used to have a full list available, but for some reason they removed it. Here's an archived version from

    https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025701/duck.co/ia

    Most links are not archived unfortunately, but here's another old repo with a list of some

    https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies/tree/master/t