Comment on Part of why internet search sucks is that many gave up trying in the face of Google.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year agoExactly. I would say more specifically, Google’s PageRank algorithm for prioritizing results was genius because it excluded the vast oceans of word-spam sites that floated to the top of all the other search engines.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes! Thanks for reminding me. Some pages would just have a dictionary of popular words in their Metadata so if you were searching for N*Sync (shut up, it was the 90s!) you’d have to scroll through a bunch of unrelated garbage before you found anything related to what you wanted.
med@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
One only has to remember all the ‘keywords’ under a youtube video back in the day, it was a nightmare to whittle things down ti what you wanted
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If we’re talking “back in the day” you had to remember WHICH website you found the video on, because everyone self published, or chose a site to submit their content to.
Zippy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You might as well be out of business if you’re result comes up on the second page of Google. :)
Some comedian said that in a comedic way IIRC. It kind of stuck with me and definately holds some truth. No one clicks on the second page unless they are desperate.