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Don’t over romanticize it. There were a lot of experiments, goofiness, and bad information in those days, too. It was also nearly impossible to find anything.
by toddmorey 7y ago
Don’t over romanticize it. There were a lot of experiments, goofiness, and bad information in those days, too. It was also nearly impossible to find anything.
- giantrobot 7y agoThere was a beautiful period before Google was reverse bought by DoubleClick where you could find damn near anything. Searching was a solved problem by Inktomi and AltaVista but PageRank solved sorting search results (for a while). Before Google AltaVista's search was pretty good at filtering out the meta tag spam that bubbled up in other search engines.
- gscott 7y agoInfoSeek was also good while it was around.
- RonanTheGrey 7y ago> beautiful period before Google was reverse bought by DoubleClick That's a beautiful way to put it. I remember those days and thing is, much of Google's reputation was built during those days, a coattail they're still coasting on today. In those days I remember you could find anything at all in just a moment. "Information snacking" was a thing, versus "being given the answer we think you want (or the one that will make us the most money)". "Reverse bought by DoubleClick", will have to remember that..
- NoGravitas 7y ago"Reverse bought by DoubleClick" is the best description of Google's degeneration that I've ever seen.
- a1369209993 7y agoExperiments and goofiness were (part of) what made it good, and bad information is far, far worse now.