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There are lots of fun and weird things on the internet, but SEO prevents you from seeing most of them---you end up seeing only the parts that someone is motivat
by vannevar 4y ago
There are lots of fun and weird things on the internet, but SEO prevents you from seeing most of them---you end up seeing only the parts that someone is motivated to pay to get you to look at. That's essentially Google's business model.
- _ea1k 4y agoI agree. Search having such a bias towards SEO as a measure of credibility has been incredibly damaging.
- lancesells 4y agoI'm always thinking of building an old-school directory of interesting sites on a limited number of topics. With the only automation being checking if the website is still up and either removing it or redirecting to an archive.
- vannevar 4y agoAnother related problem is the pathological economy of kickbacks that has developed on the internet. Early on,it made some sense to offer a small finders fee for referring traffic that bought something---you were connecting someone with a service they needed but couldn't easily find online since the search engines were not very good. Now it would be trivially easy to find almost any online service if those services weren't deliberately obfuscated by a jungle of middlemen trying to be the one that snags the referral fee.