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The web has changed drastically. I’d imagine 2005-google engine today would be nothing but abandoned Wordpress blogs with comment spam.
by wodenokoto 5y ago
The web has changed drastically. I’d imagine 2005-google engine today would be nothing but abandoned Wordpress blogs with comment spam.
- ghaff 5y agoAnd even more copy-pasted spam than already exists. The early Google (and other even earlier search engines) were invented for an Internet world which, if not pristine and pure, was at least mostly fairly legit content. Today's Internet is probably 90% deliberate spammers and scammers.
- warning26 5y agoI suspect this is exactly it—a lot of what made 2005-era-Google good wasn't necessarily Google's own doing. It was that SEO people hadn't yet fully figured out how to game the system yet. If you took an exact copy of Google circa-2005 and had it crawl today's web, you'd probably get mostly "SEO optimized" irrelevant blogspam.