There was a time, getting to be quite a long time ago now, when you'd search for something - software to run on your old SGI, pictures of your 1982 ERA Vans, et

There was a time, getting to be quite a long time ago now, when you'd search for something - software to run on your old SGI, pictures of your 1982 ERA Vans, etc. etc. - and you'd find it. You'd find it because someone's 'thing' was old shoes, and they'd built a web shrine to their thing. These were people who had knowledge of things unrelated to HTML/HTTP/CSS and so the sites were rudimentary. You are right, the engine should focus more on content and less on the complexity or quality of the formatting - but I also kind of get it.