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It's crazy to think that the internet may have already peaked, at least in certain ways. 5 years ago I could Google anything and was confident (maybe more than
by apitman 4y ago
It's crazy to think that the internet may have already peaked, at least in certain ways. 5 years ago I could Google anything and was confident (maybe more than I should have been) of getting close to the best answer, whether looking for a product recommendation or just general knowledge. That confidence has seriously eroded the past couple years.
That said, I'm optimistic that we can keep finding solutions to new problems. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad to make purchasing decisions closer to the way we used to, by asking our friends what they recommend. That's essentially how appending " reddit" to a google search works today, but even that is vulnerable to manipulation.
I'm hoping that social media of the future builds in better tools for polling our network for recommendations, and for incentivizing us to respond to our friends' queries.
- allochthon 4y agoI'm hoping that eventually we'll get around the idea of a crowd-sourced search engine (mostly manually curated) maintained in the manner of Wikipedia, backed by a solid user reputation system to dissuade spammers. This will import Wikipedia's serious flaws. But I'm hopefully that they can gradually be mitigated.
- disqard 4y agoA lot of the underpinnings of such a manually-curated knowledge base did exist in the early 2000s, in the form of Yahoo! Directory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
- allochthon 4y agoYeah, that's actually related to what I'm thinking of. The idea is a crowd-sourced and well-executed iteration on the old Yahoo! directory. https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-search.html https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...
- disqard 4y agoTIL -- thank you for sharing that!