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The internet, somewhat ironically, really needs a search engine that works in the current day. You can't find anything anymore. It's like Google has been un-inv
by solarkraft 4y ago
The internet, somewhat ironically, really needs a search engine that works in the current day. You can't find anything anymore. It's like Google has been un-invented.
Hopefully some day soon the internet will be searchable again.
Thanks to everyone involved in attempting to make this happen (preferably in a non-profit-maximized way).
(Said before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32034390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32034390)
- dageshi 4y agoI have a feeling that people stopped writing actual good website content for certain topics and moved to places like youtube instead. Youtube frankly offers better monetisation and most importantly easier user retention via subscriptions.
- solarkraft 4y agoWhile monetization is certainly a great thing for a group of people wanting to go after things they and others enjoy, it's also exactly what incentivizes people to game the system and pretty much what brought us into our current place of spam, spam more spam and barely any way to discover things that are actually good. I tend to think the quality of the content tends to be better when people don't think about stuff like user retention or subscriptions, but rather how it will actually reach people that care. Good search/curation is a key component for that. Of course such a world free of implicit monetization will require it to be explicit (Patreon-style), but that should massively realign incentives.