The internet is broken because it is free

Once people realized PageRank existed, the algorithmic arms race destroyed any semblance of user friendliness remaining on the Web, and severely detracted from actually useful communication of information.

We've got a semantic split of the Web, one for for comms, one for mercantilism, one for info prop, content hosting and streaming, the surveillance web.. but each is indexed in the same bloody index. So your Web to learn is obfuscated by the noise of people trying to sell you on one thing or the other, or places with terrible advice that just try to score ad bux off common how-to queries.

Try searching for the name of an old niche hand tool on the Net when all you've got is a physical description.

Used to be able to do it. In recent years though, I've found success rates have plummeted.

Its not internet's fault that you cannot find something, go and complain to google about their algorithms or even better, go work for them to improve it instead of complaining.

Btw. Pagerank doesnt work since ages and positioning in google is waaay harder than it was some time ago (i wont even say some years ago).

Here you go, someone just posted it in here: https://github.com/opsdisk/yagooglesearch

Maybe spend some of your free time to contribute to this free project given on free internet.

I also grew up at a time where observing actual signal and seeing the difference between "the good stuff" and "marketing woo" didn't even require half of it. I also spend a lot of time sweating how to leave behind a learnable system as good as the one I grew up with and getting frustrated because younger people and other adults can't get consistent replicable results because every damn search provider has more "personalization hooks" or agenda driven weight functions to result display that search queries for the neophyte are many times the length of ones not even a decade or so old; with better results getting hidden under the stuff that someone has a fiscal interest in getting SEO'd to the top.

The Internet does have a problem if we can't rear Internet savvy youth, which face it, the majority of parents can't because they aren't.

And no. The entire practice of SEO basically poisons the well for everyone. Any information under that type of evolutionary pressure is going to become garbage to anyone but someone who is versed in the more arcane aspects of searching, which is not the bloody thing I'm looking to perpetuate, justify or otherwise make more tenable.

So you're left with either curation, building your own search index you never share with any significant number of people or you capitulate to the market and the perverse regulations and perception management from that do nothing but perception manage anyone unaware of what is going on.

We live in a digital world separated from the actually extant one by multiple layers of entrenched players tweaking levers to determine what we do and don't see.

That ain't cool. We can't fix problems no one can see and come to a consensus on.

Otherwise, getting rid of idiots would fix the internet. But poverty, not winning the genetic lottery, and tyrants cause idiocy. So, it is hard to fix the internet. The rise of Orwellian online surveillance, elite-owned media platforms with dehumanizing censorship, creepy phone verification systems, brainwashing social credit scores, and so forth will cause closed-minded idiocy for most people rather than open-mindedness. This is what happens when cut-throat idiots get involved in monopolizing the internet. So, it is harder to fix the internet now.

Independent journalists are literally getting attacked on the internet for exposing terrifying things that the ruling class is trying to hide with oppressive censorship, banning websites, blood money, etc. It is to silence victims while the ruling class lives in luxury during this COVID pandemic.

Most North Americans, South Americans, Africans, Europeans, and Asians do not have much money nor power. They are more powerless and less rich because of taxes, tax evasions for the ruling class, dumbed down education systems, dehumanizing censorship disguised as political correctness, social credit scores, Orwellian online surveillance, elite-owned media companies, government-tracked devices (like smartphones or Windows 10 computers), abusive international trade policies, occupational licensing, child labor laws, etc. The ruling class has successfully turned most people into dumbed down serfs internationally. They do this by monopolizing the internet for example. They monopolized the internet by making websites prey on people who are not part of the ruling class through anti-adblockers, V.P.N-blockers, geoblocking, dehumanizing censorship disguised as political correctness, and luring idiots into buying things from oligarchical businesses that keep them drowning in impulsive consumerism. Unconventional art, intellectual music, black comedy, investigative journalism, serious debates, and other things have been increasingly replaced by a false sense of security on the internet from this oligarchical monopoly.