Wait, we don't call websites "websites" anymore? What do we call them now?
> What do we call them now?
Startups /s
Does anyone remember websites?
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Re: Does anyone remember websites?
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Stumbleupon ? :P
Do a lot of people actually use it? It seems like you could just as easily replace that site by simple tweets when you actually stumble upon something worthy. Which is what most people do IMO.
Based on some very perfunctory research: they certainly used to have a lot of users, but I get the feeling they have declined over the past ~5 years.
Anecdotally: I used to use StumbleUpon, and found it fun for a while. I'm not sure what caused me to drift away from it, but the reason I have no interest now is primarily that I am drowning in interesting content. (I have enough articles saved to Pocket to keep me going for years.) Getting recommendations tailored to your interests is nice, but unless the personalisation algorithm is really good, I think you can do better by cultivating your own set of sources and intermediaries.
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
People don't search the same. For example, if I'm looking for something, I rarely use Google. Always Reddit, which will take me to a specific community with a wiki, and discussion. My Girlfriend will type something into Google, without using an Adblocker, and click on the first thing (which is always an ad), and filled with SEO garbage. I'm assuming most people search this way as well, which is why it's so lucrative.
I’m still surprised the resistance-to/wailing-about Google’s placing ads inline with search results died down as quickly as it did. It’s a total shitbag move on their part. Bottom-feeding scum behavior, right there in your face at the top of search results screens. Maybe the worst, because so effective, dark pattern on the entire web. That anyone from the company gets away with speaking in public without being shoute…
DuckDuckGo does the same. I think you're exaggerating.
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
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Nowadays, anyone with a basic understanding of search engines can find almost anything they want within seconds. Almost anything popular and rather insipid, yes. Try to find more detailed information on very specific topics, however, and you'll discover that search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter. I don't think that's a good thing at a…
> search engines like Google have been optimising more and more for the former content, making it harder to find the latter To emphasize this point, just the other day my 4-year-old asked me "how do seeds inside tomatoes grow?" The answer to such a simple question cannot be found in either DDG or Google because there are literally thousands of sites in this search that helpfully tell you how to grow tomatoes from see…
To emphasize this point, just the other day my 4-year-old asked me "how do seeds inside tomatoes grow?"
Does the query "seeds growing inside tomatoes" (without the quotes) give you any relevant results?
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
#265Check out the search engine at http://wiby.me From their about page: Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercia…
I started to work on something like it. With intention of filtering-out ad-serving websites first (thanks to EasyList filtering rules) and heavy-JS second. I'm glad that someone already did something like this. Is there some more information about it? I found that it is done by https://www.wireservice.ca Is there a technical info? I was wondering how big the index is. Because it may be just possible to serve the mult…
You might be interested in Ted Unangst's miniwebproxy:
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
#266A very fine example of such site http://www.jeffbridges.com/.
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google is excellent at giving the appearance of finding everything. The fact that there is an enormous world of which Google remains completely ignorant is a fact of which we seem increasingly unapprised.
Care to expantiate on this ?
Once I found very nice forum about linux servers. I found it thanks to my friend saying I have to check it out. After spending some time there this forum started to showing up on first page of google every time I looked some solution for my server problem. Google is closing your in your own bubble. It will present to you websites that you already know or that are related to sites that you know.
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
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I recently tried to search for certain Nintendo 64 ROMs because I wanted to try out an emulator. The first couple of results on Google all lead to horrible, ad-infested websites that claimed to offer a download but either kept on redirecting me to more ad-filled sites, or tried to get me to download some sort of "download helper", "media codec" or "PC cleaning software". Then there were the sites with dozens of fake…
archive.org is the unofficial official source for ROMs on the Internet now, FYI.
Ah yes, I didn't even think of that. But now that I've checked it out, it seems like they only have ROMs up too the SNES, and none for the Nintendo 64 ("only" videos, soundtracks and manuals)
Re: Does anyone remember websites?
#269Check out the search engine at http://wiby.me From their about page: Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercia…
That site reminds me of a Douglas Adams quote: “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
yes.This part of site is from Douglas Adam words.