The real question should be is altavista still working? I'm too scared to look. Independent webmaster days used to be the best times... Now hackers and corpor

The real question should be is altavista still working? I'm too scared to look. Independent webmaster days used to be the best times... Now hackers and corporations run the show. Many are complaining that SEO is getting trumped by outright payola... cough Things like Net Neutrality and paid promotion have overrun (free and independent thought) search results now and clogged them up with sales funnels to the point that we're just going to get more and more irrelevant results until people are going to have to turn to libraries again to find meaningful and succinct results to questions. AI is in it's infancy and usually geared towards profit for google more so than for human good from what I can observe, because especially during pandemic times, they have pretty big bills to cover. The underlying problem is the monetization of information. As long as we keep driving this trend truth and accuracy of information will suffer deeply. It's best to keep monetization to less critical resources like entertainment and physical products, they can afford to be sensationalized and monetized more than things presented as science, facts, and credible news. This trend ruins the value the Internet once had and also steers intellectual value/power back to universities interestingly though, where high tuition often provides learners to more carefully planned presentations and usually more emphasis on accuracy. The future will be expensive for all of us.