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How Pinterest utterly ruined photo search on the internet
Also, the Internet is enshittified, Google has been SEO’d into ruin, and all of this is about to get worse with the explosion of AI manufactured garbage flooding the web. Human curation will become infinitely more valuable. That’s the insight. It’s huge, it’s exciting, and… it’s completely useless on its own. -Sari Azout
In the first quarter of 2011, Facebook was tops, supplying 88 percent of traffic. Pinterest was at just 1 percent. Within a year, Facebook had dropped to 60 percent, while Pinterest had surged to 26 percent.
Ray Velez • Converge: Transforming Business at the Intersection of Marketing and Technology
The internet used to be fun.
It was weird. It was frenzied. People didn’t know what they were doing, so they tried things. They didn’t optimize, because they didn’t know what to optimize for. Good websites got found because they were good. Good tweets went viral because they were good.
Then people learned how to get the results of being good, at le... See more
It was weird. It was frenzied. People didn’t know what they were doing, so they tried things. They didn’t optimize, because they didn’t know what to optimize for. Good websites got found because they were good. Good tweets went viral because they were good.
Then people learned how to get the results of being good, at le... See more
Packy McCormick • Make the Internet Fun Again
But social media has created a mass ability to publish images and curate them. On Tumblr and Pinterest and Are.na, you can group images into categories and comment on them. Through cheaper, consumer-grade media production tools, ideas once restricted to the underground or the zine now have glossy indie magazines, self-burnt mixtapes, and dozens of ... See more
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Having a great search engine is kind of useless if, for example, somebody types in “how to take better landscape photographs,” and nobody online has an answer.
Baldur Bjarnason • The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
