Reddit can't build a better search engine

Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by theamk on Thursday February 17, 2022 @12:37AM (#30369889)

Sure they do. It is just in 2001, there was 30M websites, and let's say 5% of them were good. And in 2020, there is 2000M websites... and the number of good ones is about the same (because there are only so many people willing to spend time making personal website). So the fraction is much lower now.

It is easier than ever to open your websites, and there are tons of free providers today. Look at any manual aggregator -- like hacker news or hackaday.com -- to see them. This is a variety I have not had in 2001!

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Re:Reddit can't build a better search engine by jshen on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:13AM (#30370071)

Part of the problem is that Google started heavily favoring the age of a domain about a decade or so ago. If you spin up a new site, with high quality content, you simply won’t show up in Google for a long time.

Also, the amount of good content today is vastly larger than it was in 2001. Though you are right about the ratio changing.

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