Search is just getting worse and worse, its a problem that probably nobody can solve with the current paradigm. I think in a few years there will be a significant opening in the search market for an algorithm that manages to structure information differently
That’s because the web is dead. Lots of passion projects that would have been on a blog or websites are locked into Facebook or even Twitter threads. My local historical society decided to produce lots of content and exclusively post to Facebook. It’s incredibly dumb, but people seek the easiest path.
This is a good point, the internet is largely monopolized
I blog to share my thoughts with myself, but in public. I blog with the intent of consolidating what I'd just learned or experienced in my mind. I've had some popular posts inbetween years of content that nobody cares about, and sometimes I'll have a reader email me about an old post I wrote and describe how it's helped them in a recent project. Or sometimes someone will comment about how they just saw a post mention…
I get that idea and it’s not new: one blog said in its subtitle “letting google index my thoughts”. But it’s the equivalent of talking out loud. Sure someone might hear you accidentally and benefit but most of the time it should be kept to ourselves. If something should be said, it should probably be written in a book. That will set at least some bar to prevent the constant stream of noise on the internet. Everyone c…
Most of the kinds of posts I get positive feedback on aren't something I'd ever consider interesting or important enough for a book. Personally I don't have a problem with blog noise/"talking out loud" on the internet. I think it's more up to the people who don't want noise to decide what noise is for them and to implement their own filter strategies. I can't even count how many times I stumbled across some blog post casually written that the author likely didn't expect to be noticed at all, but which provided some useful or just plain interesting information to me. It wouldn't make it into a book, but I'm glad it made it into this person's little corner of the Internet for me to discover.
> It's almost 2020... Google knows about this Google also knows about vertical search [1] and actively destroys anyone who pops up with a good new algorithm and hope for a startup. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_search . I am pretty sure there has been a HN frontpage article about a couple with a vertical search startup that was legally and practically destroyed by Google.
First, does this have anything to do with the OP article? Second, care to link to anything to substantiate your claims?
> what does this have to do with OP
OP made the point that Google does not want to address this problem and may even facilitate it (maybe passively). However, they have actively prevented progress on search engines that may be more difficult to SEO engineer/hack (because of their specificity) and particularly have prevented people with good vertical search algorithms from building a business (read: actively sabotaged their business). [1]
In any case, Google known as well to quash any other small projects that they feel challenges them. [2] [3] [4]
First, does this have anything to do with the OP article? Second, care to link to anything to substantiate your claims?
> what does this have to do with OP OP made the point that Google does not want to address this problem and may even facilitate it (maybe passively). However, they have actively prevented progress on search engines that may be more difficult to SEO engineer/hack (because of their specificity) and particularly have prevented people with good vertical search algorithms from building a business (read: actively sabotaged…
Wouldn't leaving a persistent flaw in Google search results which could be avoided by using a vertical search engine be an example of Google assisting vertical-search start-ups?
> what does this have to do with OP OP made the point that Google does not want to address this problem and may even facilitate it (maybe passively). However, they have actively prevented progress on search engines that may be more difficult to SEO engineer/hack (because of their specificity) and particularly have prevented people with good vertical search algorithms from building a business (read: actively sabotaged…
Wouldn't leaving a persistent flaw in Google search results which could be avoided by using a vertical search engine be an example of Google assisting vertical-search start-ups?
Maybe in theory, but if you look in particular at the reference labelled [1], it seems like they prefer to act as though it doesn't exist and if other people try to get vertical search going, then they simply block their startups.
There's a whole community of video gamers who do this: https://www.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/ Cost is the most obvious motivator, but for me it's more about filtering for quality in order to best allocate my limited adult gaming hours— why sink the time and money into a just-released title that might turn out to be the next Anthem or Fallout 76, when you can wait a few years about pick it up for $10-15 once it's a k…
There are drawbacks though https://xkcd.com/606/ if your friends are gamers ^^. And doesn't work as well with mmorpgs or online games.
I played Half Life 2 for the first time in 2010. True that consuming media late changes opportunities to be part of social groups about it.