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Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nic
by vanadium 8y ago
Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nicer back then, but didn't scale in the face of Google. I do miss the intimacy of search on Yahoo from back then.
And it was easy to control _how_ and _where_ you wanted your site to appear in the index. It's naive to think something similar would survive endless spam nowadays, but damn, I liked and really miss it.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Their search index was great back in the 90s simply because it was so localized to a specific interest, location, theme, etc. Wayfinding was a hell of a lot nicer back then, but didn't scale in the face of Google. To be fair, it didn't even scale in the face of DMOZ (née GnuHoo), which was similarly structured and human curated, but Wikipedia to Yahoo’s Britannica.