- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@derp.foo
- cross-posted to:
- hackernews@derp.foo
Reject search engines, embrace web rings
Someone care to elaborate on what are web rings?
Web rings were one way someone would find their way around the Web before search engines really were any good. Basically, a group of sites of a certain interest would static link each other on each site.
Say you were on a web forum for skateboarders. That forum would have a web ring section, usually in the footer or one of the gutters, of links to other sites related to skateboarding. Each of those sites would reciprocally list the others as well.
If you published your own Website about skateboarding, you would email the webmasters of those sites and asked to be added; although some had centralized Webmasters to manage the ring.
Thanks!
As soon as Google search became the defacto search engine, it also ruined search engines, because every website was designed with the explicit intent of manipulating the algorithm for attention.
Well… google mainly optimizing for its own profits and gray SEO being profitable are both consequences of the prolonged monopoly google held on search.
Bit clickbaity, the article says that this affects Bing and DuckDuckGo tool
No shit Sherlock. Next they’ll find that water is wet, full-length feature film (provided free with ads) at eleven.
At least this article gave me the opportunity to join their newsletter after scrolling down the tiniest bit on their page, making that ask a full-page feature for my convenience.:-|