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Google also has an outsized influence on the kind of content that's on the web. At some point in the past, from what I remember, they started ranking blog cont
by jfim 4y ago
Google also has an outsized influence on the kind of content that's on the web.
At some point in the past, from what I remember, they started ranking blog content lower than more "authoritative" sources, hastening the decline of personal blogging. If you're wondering why every recipe on the internet has ten paragraphs on how this recipe is their grandmother's favorite and how it reminds the author of the freshness of summer produce, it's because that's the kind of content that Google will give a high ranking.
The web was a better place when it was quirkier, and there's probably a ton of quirky content that still exists, but it won't get surfaced by search engines that much these days, and it's buried under tons of garbage.
- endemic 4y agoTime to get back to curated lists of interesting websites.
- shreyshnaccount 4y agoI unironically do that. Maybe I should publish? We could make a small project that just has interesting websites and reviews? Yelp for the interesting web?
- philistine 4y agoAnd you could call it something quirky, like Yippee!
- shreyshnaccount 4y agoNo, I'm not based in the valley :/
- scotty79 4y agoOr Yahoo ... No, wait, some squatter sits on it.
- endemic 4y agoI think some aggregators, like Jason Kottke, post lots of interesting things, but not usually the weird, unpolished, personal stuff that I associate with the 90s web. Something like early Yahoo would be cool.
- shreyshnaccount 4y agoWell i wasn't really alive back then, closest i can do is tumblr
- LionTamer 4y agoPlease do. One of my favorite things about Hacker News is that it exposes me to a treasure chest of interesting and informative blogs and other content (both archival/“historical” and current) that would be unlikely to show up in my search results.
- saperyton 4y agowww.readsomethinginteresting.com / www.thinking-about-things.com are both pretty good aggregators.
- blitzar 4y agowww.stumbleupon.com was a thing I liked back in the web 1.0 days - impressed to see it is still going.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoThere is https://curlie.org/ https://curlie.org/ already.