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I wish i could have 2010 google search as a alternative to 2021 google search.

gerdesj 5y ago
How so? I haven't seen much change apart from that crappy yellow streak of piss thing that dribbles on pages. How do you recall 2010 search? (I suspect I've lost it a bit - I'm 50.5 years old)
- smegger001 5y ago
  In general i had more relevent results on my first search qurry compared to now admitedly thats hard to prove as i can't rerun the search side by side for a comparison now. additionally ads were firmly separated into a colored box away from actual results
  - wernercd 5y ago
    As mentioned, I removing the think the rose colored glasses won't put lipstick on this pig. Google Search (and not sure how Bing or similar would do better, baring their censorship problems) is increasingly a minefield... This is the same problem with something like WoW classic... you can get the game that existed 15 years ago. But even if it is the exact same game, the world itself isn't. Online walkthroughs, videos, modding knowledge, theory crafting, etc. Those things are much more fleshed out today so even if the system didn't change 1 bit, WoW Original vs WoW Classic are really two separate games. Likewise... if you dropped Google Original down today? I'd love to see how fast it would get owned by these sorts of operations that have had a decade+ of practice in skills like CEO that didn't exist in 2010. You had more relevant results? That wouldn't change because companies live and die off of SEO now and didn't then. Highlighted ads are such a small thing on the website when compared to getting a full front page of the same Stack Overflow answers in 20 different websites that all have SO cloned and reskinned.
tempestn 5y ago
Problem is, I expect 2010 google search would be considerably worse now than it was in 2010, because "SEO" has had another decade to evolve.
- bigger_cheese 5y ago
  There was already SEO stuff going on back then people were less aware of it. I can remember during height of the Iraq war people manipulated google to display George Bush as the top result for "Miserable Failure" and there were other exercises like that happening. It's hard for me to pick a sweet spot for the internet in many ways I feel like I've grown up with it. I can remember the web of circa 1995 to 1997 with Gif's that wouldn't render properly in internet explorer, HTML marquee scrolling text and the dreaded blink tag being used everywhere. You needed to play search engine bingo with Altavista, Metacrawler, Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos etc etc. And it was a crap shoot if search engines would give you useful results. I can remember the web of 1998 to 2000 where every web developer seemed to discover html frames at the same time. We had good search with Google but pop up ads were so rife that the internet was borderline unusable. I can remember all the free webmail sites like hotmail, yahoo etc. ICQ chat was massive (whatever happened to that - it was a staple of my teen internet). In Early 2000's Firefox came along and saved the internet by virtue of its built in popup blocking. But there was a mishmap of "Applets" and "Plugins" everywhere Flash Player, Java Applets, Real Player etc. Video (and audio) on the web was terrible half the time it would complain about missing codecs, it would buffer forever and if something did load it would be the size of a postage stamp and look pixelated as all hell. I remember Gmail came out and everyone went gaga over it's interface. Last period that real stands out is the mid to late 00's with development of big Social Media sites, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. The web got more and more javascript heavy. Web video streaming finally became useable. Google Chrome came out and flash player finally died despite Microsoft trying to revive it with Silverlight. I kind of feel like this last 10 years are a continuation with increased surveillance and tracking.
- eitland 5y ago
  I think matt_cutts or someone who was active at the same time used to say that. But it still doesn't defend not blocking sites that doesn't contain anything except autogenerated content. And it still doesn't defend ignoring my keywords.
narrator 5y ago
Yandex.com is 2010 Google search, IMHO. It's not filtered at all and seems to have that pure pagerank feel of the old Google search engine, while the modern Google seems to be hand tweaked quite a bit to only quote "authoritative sources". Search for a politically controversial topics all you want on Google and you will not have your first couple of pages being debunking or fact check sites. Compare Google's search results for "who is zhengli shi" vs. the Yandex.com results for example. You can even find Putin scandals and "Tank Man" on there, even though it's a search engine based in Russia.

How so? I haven't seen much change apart from that crappy yellow streak of piss thing that dribbles on pages. How do you recall 2010 search? (I suspect I've lost it a bit - I'm 50.5 years old)

smegger001 5y ago
In general i had more relevent results on my first search qurry compared to now admitedly thats hard to prove as i can't rerun the search side by side for a comparison now. additionally ads were firmly separated into a colored box away from actual results
- wernercd 5y ago
  As mentioned, I removing the think the rose colored glasses won't put lipstick on this pig. Google Search (and not sure how Bing or similar would do better, baring their censorship problems) is increasingly a minefield... This is the same problem with something like WoW classic... you can get the game that existed 15 years ago. But even if it is the exact same game, the world itself isn't. Online walkthroughs, videos, modding knowledge, theory crafting, etc. Those things are much more fleshed out today so even if the system didn't change 1 bit, WoW Original vs WoW Classic are really two separate games. Likewise... if you dropped Google Original down today? I'd love to see how fast it would get owned by these sorts of operations that have had a decade+ of practice in skills like CEO that didn't exist in 2010. You had more relevant results? That wouldn't change because companies live and die off of SEO now and didn't then. Highlighted ads are such a small thing on the website when compared to getting a full front page of the same Stack Overflow answers in 20 different websites that all have SO cloned and reskinned.

tempestn 5y ago

Problem is, I expect 2010 google search would be considerably worse now than it was in 2010, because "SEO" has had another decade to evolve.

bigger_cheese 5y ago
There was already SEO stuff going on back then people were less aware of it. I can remember during height of the Iraq war people manipulated google to display George Bush as the top result for "Miserable Failure" and there were other exercises like that happening. It's hard for me to pick a sweet spot for the internet in many ways I feel like I've grown up with it. I can remember the web of circa 1995 to 1997 with Gif's that wouldn't render properly in internet explorer, HTML marquee scrolling text and the dreaded blink tag being used everywhere. You needed to play search engine bingo with Altavista, Metacrawler, Yahoo, Infoseek, Lycos etc etc. And it was a crap shoot if search engines would give you useful results. I can remember the web of 1998 to 2000 where every web developer seemed to discover html frames at the same time. We had good search with Google but pop up ads were so rife that the internet was borderline unusable. I can remember all the free webmail sites like hotmail, yahoo etc. ICQ chat was massive (whatever happened to that - it was a staple of my teen internet). In Early 2000's Firefox came along and saved the internet by virtue of its built in popup blocking. But there was a mishmap of "Applets" and "Plugins" everywhere Flash Player, Java Applets, Real Player etc. Video (and audio) on the web was terrible half the time it would complain about missing codecs, it would buffer forever and if something did load it would be the size of a postage stamp and look pixelated as all hell. I remember Gmail came out and everyone went gaga over it's interface. Last period that real stands out is the mid to late 00's with development of big Social Media sites, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube etc. The web got more and more javascript heavy. Web video streaming finally became useable. Google Chrome came out and flash player finally died despite Microsoft trying to revive it with Silverlight. I kind of feel like this last 10 years are a continuation with increased surveillance and tracking.
eitland 5y ago
I think matt_cutts or someone who was active at the same time used to say that. But it still doesn't defend not blocking sites that doesn't contain anything except autogenerated content. And it still doesn't defend ignoring my keywords.

narrator 5y ago

Yandex.com is 2010 Google search, IMHO. It's not filtered at all and seems to have that pure pagerank feel of the old Google search engine, while the modern Google seems to be hand tweaked quite a bit to only quote "authoritative sources". Search for a politically controversial topics all you want on Google and you will not have your first couple of pages being debunking or fact check sites. Compare Google's search results for "who is zhengli shi" vs. the Yandex.com results for example. You can even find Putin scandals and "Tank Man" on there, even though it's a search engine based in Russia.