Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
by zozbot234 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:30PM
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It was the rise of tagging and folksonomies (now known as #hashtags) which made the blogs halfway usable. Because they allow you to search within the archived posts for the sub-topic you're interested in.
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Re:The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
by chrisfinazzo on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:13PM
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But wasn't the raison d'etre of Google links to other sites, thereby giving some sense of how popular a given page was?
This helps individual sites, but says little about why the overall quality of links has nosedived. Who they link to continues to matter, except that now there is so much noise this is very difficult to get right unless you are extremely clever, lucky, or probably both.