15 Aug
2019
15 Aug
'19
5:38 p.m.
From: Seth J. Morabito
> having stuff scattered across a zillion personal
pages (be they blogs,
> or whatever) is going to make it hard to find the useful one when
> needed
The sheer vastness of content available, combined with
a Google
monoculture, combined with a concerted attempt to GAME the Google
monoculture, is making search and discovery hard
An additional issue, I think, is that Google is deprecating sites that use
HTTP, versus HTTPS. I can't comment more, lest I start ranting at the utter
stupidity of forcing everyone to use HTTPS. But if those blogs are using
HTTP, that will push them down the results.
I honestly don't know what to do about it. I
don't have a better idea,
unless we go back to something like a directory-style curated
experience, a-la Yahoo! circa 1998-ish.
I'm not sure that would scale to cover detailed pages on obsolete computers;
why is a manual indexer going to cover them?
Anyway, the whole 'how do we find the info' is a part of why I started
working on CHWiki, once I discovered it - in addition to the usual advantages
of wikis (good for collaboration, good for adding stuff incrementally), it
would put all the info in one place, a 'one stop shopping' for old computer
info.
But when I tried to convince people to post stuff there, instead of on their
blogs, I got at least one person who was pretty vehement that no way in h***
were they going to stop putting their stuff in their own blog.
Noel