Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment: “Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was.”

I remember Google coming out and changing everything.

It had billions of pages instead of millions.

It returned results in seconds, and by seconds I mean 2-3, not 60.

Everything else became irrelevant overnight.

Now Google search is shit.

it’s not just google

for the past year or so I’ve been telling people that DDG is so much better as it actually returns the results you’re looking for, which Google stopped doing. except in the past few months, the same thing is happening there now too.

I don’t know if it’s fuckery with the search engines, people gaming SEO, ads, or if it’s just the sheer quantity of shit that’s on the internet now, but it’s at least half of the time now that I go to search something and it’s not in the top half dozen results. and sometimes I can’t even find it at all, despite knowing that it definitely exists out there.