Subj : Re: Community
To   : tenser
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Oct 03 2022 10:47:00

 te> Search is a hard problem and requires vast capital resources to
 te> address in a meaningful way.  Most of the web is still outside of the
 te> walled gardens of Facebook et al, and indexing it is not easy, let
 te> alone making the search corpus available to people.

I'm at times left to wonder, how much data Google Search actually maintains
about the individuals using it.  I've found frequently if I swap search
engines I cannot get anything remotely like the information I'm looking for
while getting all sorts of extraneous junk.  While if I go back to the Google
Empire I'll generally get a better result.  Usually I'm not looking for
anything thats on any other major service like FacePalm or similar.

 te> In some sense, Google benefited enormously because, when it started
 te> out, the web was much, much smaller and so it could grow _with_
 te> the web.  Not so much these days.

They were also able to keep moving with the times... where a lot of others
fell by the wayside.  Way back when I used to prefer WebCrawler, with Alta
Vista as a backup position, but it got to the point you couldn't get anything
reasonable out of them.

Spec


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