I have a theory that the whole mainstream internet is entirely fake. If you use any search engine, any request shows only useless mainstream sites owned by the elite. There are many genuine sites owned by normal people that never get shown. I have spent many hours before finding a site that is not owned by the elite. Unaware people don't know that normal sites exist. If all search engines are owned by the elite, average people will never find anything genuine but bullshit sites.
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stric9 ago
And no matter how many times you explain it no one cares. They like being spoon fed by google and friends. Yes, i have noticed it. Back in 2008 the internet was rampant with crazy websites. A lot were looney, out of date and discussed things that were too far fetched to believe. There were websites for EVERYTHING you wanted to find. And many you didn't want to find. The dot com boom drowned out those voices but some are still there. Edit: i can't format. Hipiers.com. zoombo.com and such.
PewterKey ago
We're hitting a weird infomation bottleneck. Because of over-correcting and over-optimization, we have 1 winner in any search for infomation. And it is further distorted with things like facebook and tumblr that literally prevent uneducated discovery.
I am actually impressed with the lack of functionality in major sites. They literally make the experience miserable.
stric9 ago
It does make it miserable, the new internet is stale and unoriginal. It's as drastic as cars from the fifties and sixties compared to today's look alike cars made of plastic with no horsepower.