Who remembers Gopher? Today it would be classified as the darkweb...
Anything that's not a top social media site is "the darkweb" to news idiots.
some are still used.
AskJeeves is now google search.
AltaVista was bought by yahoo.
Some other search engines...
Altavista was MURDERED by yahoo!
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Even google was good way back when. Now it’s a Propaganda sjw dumpster fire of diversity hires and agenda and projecting moral superiority.
A theory, the data search engines look through is less useful for making good search.
Search was basically the concept that the internet is organized into directories of content (because it was before search) and that we can look through those directories to give people the answer they would get from spending hours looking through them, in half a second instead.
But with search existing, content is no longer in the form of directories, which is the data search engines need to do their job, and their existence is the entire premise of what search does.
We can pretend content that isn't a directory is "directory like" and use links/backlinks, but that just means that the algorithm has something to operate on. It doesn't mean that it does it correctly.
Oh that is informative. I remember also using web directories sorted by content, and webrings. (and guestbooks lol).
If you have more thoughts I think the "evolution of the search engine" would be something poalr bears would like to read, if you have insights.
Avd videos were actually good, relevant, and funny before youtube sold to google
oh man back when RealPlayer and WindowsMedia embeds were the only way to get videos online, you got the cream of the crop (like Tourettes Guy)
YES, fpsdoug, webdrifter etc. Actual GOOD shit
Interesting you mention this, check out this blog post in reference to old legacy media : https://blog.peteyvid.com/blast-from-the-past/
oh wow, thanks
Also, seemed like there was much more content on the old Geocities and Angelfire sites
Google was much more "accurate" cica 911 and the decade after
The moment google started to be openly biased politically, as in "we must stop hate online" the shit went completely down hill
It's obvious that elements of research are black listed, and I'm not talking about child porn or gore stuff filtered by google AI and human filters, I'm talking about political content, everything at the right of Lenin gets the shaft now. I'm caricaturing but I'm not that far off. I still find the documents I need because I know they are there, not because google helped me to find them quickly and easily by doing the job it used to do
Dogpile is still good for finding legally-gray content.
Bing is good for finding porn and suicide directions.
I mostly agree yea before user data and trends were thrown into the relevance mix.
Absolutely. The golden age of the internet is long gone. It is a curated space now.
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