The man who killed Google Search? | Hacker News
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The man who killed Google Search? | Hacker News
HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what?
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What really broke down in Google’s original vision is the incentive system they were building towards. There is a very specific subset of information you’re interested in “organizing” when you’re trying to serve the perfect ad.
Kyle Harrison • Building the Global Knowledge Graph: Dreaming the Dream for Roam Research
The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.
Sublime • Notes on Scale + Quality
Google search and Wikipedia in particular are great examples of how the internet has enabled immense scale and speed: every crawlable page on the web, every sufficiently noteworthy topic, etc, returned to you within a second. But choosing the extreme end of scale is at odds with the key property of personal knowledge management: relevance. A scient... See more