The Age of PageRank is Over | Kagi Blog
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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
PageRank. It made BackRub much more useful than the results you’d get from the commercial search engines.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
But Google's (relative) position did not last too long either. The internet has become more personal and more social. Individual people (as opposed to companies and specialized "webmasters") started to generate more content and wanted to interact with each other rather than simply "browse" static content. Power shifted towards Facebook and other pl... See more
Dror Poleg • Crypto and the Conservation of Centralization
The method search engines use to rank pages is constantly evolving. At the moment, inbound links are still a dominant factor in determining the quality, authority and relevance of a page for search rankings; over time though, as search engines get better at evaluating the actual content of a site, and introduce a more human measure of quality, perh
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