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Paul Graham
@paulg
This may not just be a problem with Google but possibly also the recipe for beating Google. A startup usually has to start with a niche market. Why not try writing a search engine specifically for some category dominated by SEO spam?
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Michael Seibel
@mwseibel
A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories.
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Paul Graham
@paulg
You might need to do a lot of manual spam fighting initially. That could be both the thing-that-doesn't-scale, and the thing that differentiates you by being alien to Google's DNA. (They must hate manual interventions; so inelegant).
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Paul Graham
@paulg
Maybe ultimately you open up spam fighting to your users. If you managed this well, you could harness a lot of energy. Lots of people want to be amateur police. And boy would Google find it hard to follow you down that road.
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michael olenick 🦉
@michael_olenick
Remake the original Yahoo with hand curated search results or a hybrid once you have enough samples to train AIs. Only add sites that don’t spam up their pages. Start with recipes. Those are especially noxious with the long intros.
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Paul Graham
@paulg
If there's a steep distribution of the value of queries, which I'm sure there is, it could make sense to hand-curate some results.
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Louie Bacaj
@LBacaj
With closed communities, walled social networks, this isn’t as easy to solve anymore as it was when Google started. Consider ranking good products to buy; Amazon has a total closed monopoly on searches, reviews, purchase data. Google’s downfall is going to be multi-pronged.
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Emre
@emre_mayo
Google focus shifted from highest quality search results, to now attempting to shape public views and perception. Those are competing aims.
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steve.avax 🔺
@StevenPWalsh
Somewhat related, I'd love if search indexes were open, and I could manage it. Instead of a robots.txt file, just let me update my sites profile. Google does have webmaster tools... they're not good, they never have been.
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steve.avax 🔺
@StevenPWalsh
One of the cool parts of web3, is lots of data that might have been locked in centralized databases is now on the chain. Huge opportunity to shine some light on the dark web.
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