I completely agree that Google have skewed results away from what they used to be (That is effective) and now it is more in alignment with what could be profitable over what is valid.
This does seem to be an overall invisible hand at play as even things like Google Advanced Search has lost much of what it used to do with regards to finding searches which were performed in the past (Including scrapping cached pages).
Add to these limited results from sites such as Reddit or message boards and algorithms supposing what you might be looking for and the entire thing is as much an imbroglio as it was in the days of Infoseek or Altavista when text formatted to the background image colour was used to trick people into looking at porn as opposed to what they were searching for. SEO used to promote metadata and alt links to maximise exposure at being found. "News" sites circlejerking the same flaccid untrue story back and forth has also tipped the scales into what can be found and when everything is considered it seems like a new version of the original Internet, the one before Web 2.0, is much more attractive to people actually looking to research things which interest them as opposed to hegemonised context written by AI (Or modern journalists who aren't even as good).
It is time for a change and hopefully one for the better. But the forces at play don't want individuality, creativity or groups formed outside of their control. The next evolution of search engines will require some sort of AI which will whittle down results based upon parameters set by the end user and whoever can take that leap and make it effective will be the ultimate player at that point.
While Google seems to think that Vikings were black and the Kurgans were led by a woman we are as far from the truth as can be. The enlightenment will come, but at its own cost - what that will be is yet to be seen but it is inevitable.
I completely agree that Google have skewed results away from what they used to be (That is effective) and now it is more in alignment with what could be profitable over what is valid.
This does seem to be an overall invisible hand at play as even things like Google Advanced Search has lost much of what it used to do with regards to finding searches which were performed in the past (Including scrapping cached pages).
Add to these limited results from sites such as Reddit or message boards and algorithms supposing what you might be looking for and the entire thing is as much an imbroglio as it was in the days of Infoseek or Altavista when text formatted to the background image colour was used to trick people into looking at porn as opposed to what they were searching for. SEO used to promote metadata and alt links to maximise exposure at being found. "News" sites circlejerking the same flaccid untrue story back and forth has also tipped the scales into what can be found and when everything is considered it seems like a new version of the original Internet, the one before Web 2.0, is much more attractive to people actually looking to research things which interest them as opposed to hegemonised context written by AI (Or modern journalists who aren't even as good).
It is time for a change and hopefully one for the better. But the forces at play don't want individuality, creativity or groups formed outside of their control. The next evolution of search engines will require some sort of AI which will whittle down results based upon parameters set by the end user and whoever can take that leap and make it effective will be the ultimate player at that point.
While Google seems to think that Vikings were black and the Kurgans were led by a woman we are as far from the truth as can be. The enlightenment will come, but at its own cost - what that will be is yet to be seen but it is inevitable.