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Agreed. > If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc. The gener
by ColinHayhurst 4y ago
Agreed.
> If I want to search for something topical and relevant, I go to Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord etc. The general Internet is dead: it's just legacy content and spam.
The "general" Internet is not dead. Though if you just want to participate in just Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, HackerNews, Instagram, Google Maps, Discord you might well think that.
Users of marginalia (author above), Mojeek (disclosure: CEO) and others [0] are well aware that there are riches of organic human-made content; from years back and new. Yes, a lot of noise too, which Google has a bigger (SEO) struggle to compete against. But still there is good and different content available.
To find good content, using search, you need to use "search" engines which enable discovery, as Google used to do so. I stress the "search" as the emphasis of Google, Bing and thus their syndicates is increasingly on being "answer" engines.
[0] https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
- mc32 4y agoSounds like we’re back to AskJeeves and a number of failed answer engines from a couple of decades ago!
- ColinHayhurst 4y agoAskBERT but now MUM knows best.
- tmaly 4y agoEveryone is trying to game the Google algorithm. The net result is all this long form content and cooking recipes that are 10 pages long. There seems to be a big disconnect with a typical users attention span and the length of a post.
- Domenic_S 4y ago> The "general" Internet is not dead. For some things it is. Good luck getting a non-sponsored/SEO-gamed review of a kitchen appliance or particular vacation mode such as a cruise. It's flabbergasting. Most times I just stick "inurl:reddit.com" in my search and try to get discussion threads about the thing I'm researching, but even that's getting filled up with shills.
- marginalia_nu 4y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯ http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indmix.html http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indmix.html http://www.alaska.net/~akpassag/ http://www.alaska.net/~akpassag/
- FargaColora 4y agoThese websites seem to be last updated decades ago, which is prehistoric to most casual browsers. There's no doubt there is great content on the general internet, but these examples I would classify as "legacy".
- marginalia_nu 4y agoI can see why the website owners would be interested in getting traffic to recent websites, but why would you be interested in recently updated websites?
- metadat 4y agoStores typically stock recently manufactured products. Once the manufacturer discontinues a model and inventory is gone, that's a wrap. Sometimes the product was good and gets replaced by an inferior one (in the spirit of old burger king vs new post-acqusition burger king), other times it's just small tech refresh tweaks, and everything in between. A real litter of inconsistency between unrelated external organizations and varying markets and skill sets.
- throwaway894345 4y ago