[bryanlarsen]

But it's a case of "One bad apple spoils the lot". Even if every other apple in the bushel is good now, they've now all been exposed to too much ethylene and you have to either immediately turn them all into sauce or throw them away.

[raydev]

Or that's a bad analogy and you just have to look harder for the good apples, which don't get spoiled.

The internet certainly doesn't feel fake to me yet. There's more stuff I don't care about and people trying to sell me things than there was 20 years ago, but my internal ruleset for deciding whether I value what I'm reading/watching is so strong that I don't really put any thought into it.

[mejutoco]

I think Google became altavista and spam is too easy. Maybe sth like kagi can mitigate it.

[joquarky]

At least Altavista had a robust set of Boolean operators that actually worked as documented.

[yowzadave]

The problem is, the algorithm that originally worked really well for Google (PageRank) ultimately contributed to turning the internet into SEO spam. How do you extract signal from noise in a way that doesn’t immediately make the noise problem worse?

[mejutoco]

- rank sites without ads higher

- Allow the users to blacklist domains (pinterest)