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I also challenge people’s memory of it being so much better. Was it really? Or just different?
by emodendroket 4y ago
I also challenge people’s memory of it being so much better. Was it really? Or just different?
- sshine 4y agoIt was mostly better. The competition for many kinds of search terms is causing a race to the bottom. E.g. tech docs, lyrics, recipes, reviews. That’s why Kago has a lense for “non-spammy recipe searches” — there’s just so much noise on popular, easily copyable material. You don’t get the best site by popular vote like PageRank was known for, you get the one that generates the most ad revenue.
- squiffsquiff 4y agoIt was an honest attempt on the crawlers' part and it was a more level playing field. If you didn't find what you wanted on lycos, you could look on Yahoo or Alta Vista or WebCrawler or something instead. For a time there were meta Search engines that allowed you to search other search engine amalgamated results.
- emodendroket 4y agoYeah, you had your choice of several awful results and everyone couldn’t shut up about how good Google was when it was available. If people mean “Google used to be better” I’m willing to entertain the idea, but you’re out of your mind if you miss using Altavista and Dogpile.
- squiffsquiff 4y agoYou're comparing Google how it was then. Not how it is now
- emodendroket 4y agoWith Google right now I find what I am looking for almost all of the time. I can’t say that about the golden oldies you’re praising.