@irenes @randomgeek (An interesting asterisk on that bit about social media being ephemeral is Cohost: Maybe the *least* ephemeral social-networking website, in spite of its anti-discovery design ethos. I suspect this has a lot to do with how surprisingly massive its Google juice is.)
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The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.Site directories.Web rings.Home pages linking to trusted sites.Homework and jello shooter re... -
The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.Site directories.Web rings.Home pages linking to trusted sites.Homework and jello shooter re...@irenes @randomgeek Another part is the shift to social media, where people get that social reward you mention, but posts are ephemeral and disappear into the ether, not indexed by search engines.
I want something like Google to exist. It was useful to be able to find something without a known route to it. Still is, when it works.
But for that to work, folks like me need to post stuff where Google can see it, so it can benefit people (not just some company) in the long term (not just briefly).
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The eldest among us remember the First Web, before search engines were Good Actually. They used secret magics to make sense of the chaos that was the First Web.Site directories.Web rings.Home pages linking to trusted sites.Homework and jello shooter re...@irenes @randomgeek Also, part of that that occurred to me was that Google built their search engine and then their business on the rich environment of pages-linking-to-other-pages that existed then.
Which, Google's corporate interests notwithstanding, that still works *very* well today. I feel like one part (definitely not the whole) of Google's/search in general's decline in quality is that there's been a decline in (non-ephemeral) links… partly because of the shift to “just Google it”.