14 Aug
2019
14 Aug
'19
1:30 p.m.
On 8/14/2019 12:46 PM, Seth J. Morabito via cctalk wrote:
!!!THE CLOUD!!!
YOUR DATA IS IN OUR HANDS. JUST LIKE YOUR SOUL!
My real complant is WEB SEARCHS only match SPONSED items and the latest
buzz words. It gets worse on things like EBAY.
XYZ123 SERIAL card for ABC789 computer might have 1 out of 10
hits that is NOT WINDOWS 64 ...
Ben.
It's not
clear that it's the dynamic nature of the content he's
unhappy with; it might just be that 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, and that's why he's
cranky. (Well, more so than he usually is.... :-)
I agree, this is a very valid complaint.
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. 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. Not that that doesn't have it's own horrible problems, of
course.