A search engine for only pages catered by an individual and not a company would be very cool. The first PageRank patent recently expired[1], so one could use the early Google methods for setting up such a thing. I thought early google was great and much better than today's.
I thought early google was great and much better than today's.
In terms of treating bacterial infections, the early years of penicillin were also better than our own era because the pathogens hadn't evolved resistance yet. Early Google was great because the Web's pathogens hadn't evolved resistance yet.
Maybe one would have to have a system where the websites were vetted by people, set up trees of trust, and then let people choose the top of the tree and the depth for the search. Probably too computationally intense, if one has many nodes and websites, but it would be interesting to try.
I wonder if it was a paid search portal owned by someone that did not feel the need to maximize profits could do a much better job? Like Craigslist worked well for a long time.
Looking at quite a few modern social networks, like Instagram, "success" and engagement on many of these platforms seems to follow many of the same rules people use for SEO in regular websites.
From an outside perspective much of the difference between many influencer or aggregation accounts and a bot with nice imagery escapes me. (Although I realize much of that is just me being old and grumpy and the difference is likely the community around those figures that I am simply not a part of)
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