In the early days the internet was a free, egalitarian space for anyone to surf. Now, commercial interests rule – but users do still have some control.
The algorithm - entering an ongoing war between SEO, content bots, AI, and search machines - is probably the easy part. Keeping your operation afloat and providing the resources for a smooth service is the hard part.
The original Google pagerank algo is completly broken as there are no homepages anymore. Backlinks from other sites used to be something, but now normal people are on Facebook, Insta or Reddit, where you can’t get your links from and commercial sites are doing their own linking game, which is not really useful for establishing the quality of a site. The internet changed
I still sometimes find homepages. Often it’s devs having a little personal blog of their holiday photos, cons they visited and links to their various projects on github etc… The last one in my history is https://richardwong.io for example. I was looking up stuff about the Sway WM when I got there.
The algorithm - entering an ongoing war between SEO, content bots, AI, and search machines - is probably the easy part. Keeping your operation afloat and providing the resources for a smooth service is the hard part.
The original Google pagerank algo is completly broken as there are no homepages anymore. Backlinks from other sites used to be something, but now normal people are on Facebook, Insta or Reddit, where you can’t get your links from and commercial sites are doing their own linking game, which is not really useful for establishing the quality of a site. The internet changed
I still sometimes find homepages. Often it’s devs having a little personal blog of their holiday photos, cons they visited and links to their various projects on github etc… The last one in my history is https://richardwong.io for example. I was looking up stuff about the Sway WM when I got there.
Yeah. The internet is not the same anymore. There’s no way to “just do it”.