The man who killed Google Search?

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wayne-li2 ◴[23 Apr 24 19:50 UTC] No.40136429[source]▶

Even though I agree with what the author is saying, the tone of this article is off putting to me. There are ways to call out people for being bad at their job without resorting to “class traitor” and “ratfucker”.

That being said, Google search is 100% dead. I append “reddit” to every Google query to get actual results from people, and I don’t see it on Reddit, I give up on my query.

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1. A_D_E_P_T ◴[23 Apr 24 23:20 UTC] No.40138518[source]▶

>>40136429 #

This is going to sound crazy, but do you know what the web really needs right now in 2024? A new, searchable directory. Like the old Yahoo! Directory or DMOZ. Just a carefully curated list of trusted sites that are made and managed by humans and for humans.

Reddit is usually very bad, because it's heavily astroturfed and trivially easy for marketing firms to game. Something else is required.

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2. nullindividual ◴[24 Apr 24 00:15 UTC] No.40138932[source]▶

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refdesk.com was the very first website I visited in the earlish-90s. An awesome curated collection of websites.

...and looking at it today, it may not have changed much.

Thank fark for Fark.com and I guess refdesk.com. Classic Intertubes.

reddit has become nearly unreadable. If it isn't puns, bots, bots reposting puns, it's some awful "no shit" relationship advice thread, etc. (no, I don't have an account so yes, I do look at /r/all).

3. atif089 ◴[24 Apr 24 00:32 UTC] No.40139046[source]▶

>>40138518 (TP) #

With so much AI generated spam being pushed on the web I think this is where we are headed towards in a couple of months/years.

Oh and not to mention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

4. ninjaa ◴[24 Apr 24 03:24 UTC] No.40140167[source]▶

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GNU has a really concept called the GNS for Gnu Naming System. And what it was was that each human or org would have their own tld directory, and we could navigate the web through other actors, and they could pass trust for zones on to others. So, for example, I could resolve the same page as somepage.ninjaa.site or someotherpage.adept.site. This way you could create a trusted internet by just trusting the published link tld directory of people & institutions you know.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9498 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNUnet

5. ozr ◴[24 Apr 24 03:43 UTC] No.40140301[source]▶

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The awesome-X lists seem like a community attempt to do something similar.

6. freilanzer ◴[24 Apr 24 12:02 UTC] No.40143349[source]▶

>>40138518 (TP) #

That sounds somewhat like Kagi, no?

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