Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
by symonda on Monday July 03, 2023 @03:52AM
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This is an interesting point. User managed or curated indices offer unique advantages, especially when 'depth of coverage' is more important than 'breadth of coverage'. I believe that we are witnessing people shift away from demanding 'search breadth' as we speak, so someone might possibly decide to do this.
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Re:Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
by noizejoy on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:20AM
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> User managed or curated indices …
Do you mean self-managed?
Everything else is effectively the influencer scene. Which is increasingly deplorable as well.
Anything with wide enough reach becomes cost-effective for gaming.
So one would have to return to a highly fragmented world to make gaming the system cost prohibitive.
And that would get us to a pre-Internet world. But then again, it’s not entirely unthinkable that we’re headed towards increasing Internet fragmentation if various governments get their way.