Anil DashThere has absolutely not been a better opportunity in this century to build a successful new search engine for the internet. The dominant players are running full speed to make their offerings worse, and that’s after *years* of complaints that Google’s results are decaying.
Scott Jenson@anildash I agree, but it's also important to discuss how the web has become so much harder to search properly. Content mills, click farms, and soon LLM generated content, create an extremely hard 'wheat from chaff' problem.
Andrew Hinton@scottjenson @anildash only a couple hours ago I was searching for the answer to something via Google and the top several choices were all SEO weaponized word salad where I had to scroll through forty CPU-crippling ad-embeds to get to the actual poorly-written-keyword-stuffed answers … finally found a straightforward post about ten choices down in the results, with the answer in the first paragraph.
They created a human-centipede-ouroboros of information.
They created a human-centipede-ouroboros of information.
Talha Muftee@Andrewhinton @scottjenson @anildash This is why most of my queries regarding issues end with reddit now as a keyword. Even Quora used to be good at finding good solutions. But their ranking system ruined how people started writing.