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Do you think you could eventually reproduce the glory of mid-2000s Google? At least for some large predefined subset of the internet?
by Y_Y 4y ago
Do you think you could eventually reproduce the glory of mid-2000s Google? At least for some large predefined subset of the internet?
- culi 4y agoI think the biggest problem with this is not necessarily Google's algorithm changing, but the internet changing. Sites evolved to produce SEO spam for higher rankings and Google's search, as bad as it is now, would probably be even worse if it stayed stagnant and didn't evolve in response The "predefined subset of the internet" part can definitely be a solution but the preceding "large" is probably where the challenge remains. However, projects like Looria[0] give me hope for a more curated search experience (i.e. without the "large" adjective) [0] https://www.looria.com/ https://www.looria.com/
- wolfgang42 4y agoI don’t really remember Google of that era; I got on the Internet pretty late. But I do have high hopes for the recent rise we’ve seen in smaller, targeted search engines; a lot of the Google-scale problems of “making a search engine” go away when you focus on a small corner of the Web: - the tech has reached a point where it’s actually pretty reasonable for someone to index a fairly large chunk of it themselves: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-07-23-write-your-own https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-07-23-write-your-own - benefits of diversification: if one search engine isn’t helpful, you can try another instead of just being out of luck; and spammers now have to game a bunch of different algorithms rather than being able to target just one. - having just one person, or a small group, focuses the results, and can hopefully produce a higher level of polish in a targeted area.