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You don't remember how it was before search engines, do you? It was like a dark maze, and sometimes you'd find a piece of the map. Search coming online was a
by btbuildem 7y ago
You don't remember how it was before search engines, do you?
It was like a dark maze, and sometimes you'd find a piece of the map.
Search coming online was a watershed moment -- like, "before search" and "after search"
- bduerst 7y agoYep. - You had your web rings, which would cycle from site to site based on a category, some pages having multiple rings. - You had your "communities", organizing sites by URL structure, where similar pages were grouped together like a strip mall or something (i.e. neighborhoods for geocities). - You had scammy services that would submit your pages to multiple search engines, at a cost, but would guarantee you would show up in results. - You had your aggregators, like dogpile, where you would sift through pages of results from different search engines, hoping to find something different. It wasn't a good time. If you think about the problem that search engines solve today - connecting people with information that they want - we're currently at a peak.