[wslh]

The problem now is finding interesting content, in the recent past it was enough to fire some few keywords on a search engine. Even leas advanced search engines found those sites. Google beat them adding some kind of authority but at the end the authority is gamed. Well content sites giving a s*t to SEO remain under layers and layer of dust.

[marginalia_nu]

I think pinning all of this on Google is unfair. They're part of it, but Reddit/Twitter/Facebook is every bit as complicit. Honestly, I think most of what's changed is our collective web-usage habits.

In my experience researching ways of building different and better discovery tools, the ice-berg of stuff that you'll virtually never find on Google/Facebook/Reddit/Twitter runs extremely deep, and is often much more interesting.

[bluetomcat]

The platform-oriented web is like a giant shopping mall with some magazines and newspapers sold in-between. News websites are mostly reviewing the "products" sold in the shops. YouTube celebrities are demonstrating their shopping abilities. Sites like Reddit/Twitter are fostering customer discussions whose aim is to determine the "best product".

[wslh]

Completely agree. I mentioned Google specifically because it in their official mission [1] and this is where they started.

[1] https://about.google/

[johnchristopher]

> The problem now is finding interesting content, in the recent past it was enough to fire some few keywords on a search engine.

But it's still enough to subscribe to some newsletters or reddit or listapart of the decade, etc. It's really not far away.

Now the problem is turbulence.org. Man, that hurts.