[dietr1ch]

I'd go further and say that SEO has not only ruined search, but the internet itself.

There's so much crappy content around, generated webpages that aim to match every search query. I just looked for "four times five" and there's a huge ton of matches, including pages dedicated to "4x5" [0], which I think do more damage to the web than help.

I feel the web is broken. It was modeled around documents and slowly features started creeping in, like adding images, gifs, audio, video, applications (flash, java), 3D, making the document closer to a program. At every step it felt like an improvement, but it seems that we ended up with another C++. There's probably a law around creating a platform so popular that it'll organically get features until the accidental design is realized to be awful so people start coming up with their ideal subset that works reasonably well because they can't really leave such platform as they became hostages of their investment into it.

[0]: https://multiply.info/times-what-equals/4-times-what-equals-...