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How is searching painful? It's gotten better with almost every year. I only see this sentiment here on HN, along with many other shitty takes about how pure th
by dntrkv 5y ago
How is searching painful? It's gotten better with almost every year.
I only see this sentiment here on HN, along with many other shitty takes about how pure the internet used to be. Are you talking about that era when opening the wrong search result would bombard your screen with millions of popups and install 20 toolbars on your machine?
Please tell me when this magical time of no spam in search results existed? 1995?
- mianos 5y agoYou do a search, it says millions of results, the first pages all have results without the quoted terms in the page at all. They don't show "we don't have any good results" if they can display a bunch of ads on a bunch of pages with useless results.
- salawat 5y agoIt wasn't a case of no spam; but rather predictable spam. After a while you'd start to recognize the Web rings. The "just link" pages became extremely obvious after a while, and you could generally reliably get the same results regardless of where you searched from or what you were doing when the time came to search. You had far fewer syndication mills, and you could even find resources reliably. The net was a reasonably navigable thing even to children doing school research. Nowadays, I have to explain to kids all the myriad pitfalls that exist nowadays, when they look up something, ho back a bit later, and can't find their resource anymore. And that's just the bloody legit stuff. When you talk malware, we're in a completely different world nowadays.