[throwaway14356]

> Google has built a massive index of the internet that covers close to 100% of the accessible web.

While their index (of other peoples stuff) is enormous it far from includes everything. It is easy to disqualify and people would be screaming if content farms would be included. What even is a content farm nowadays? One can return a reasonable article for any query with llms rich in links to other pages that don't exist but could be indexed and are part of the accessible web

If you make a new website with a few thousand pages and a few thousand images it takes quite a while for google to pick up the entire thing, if it even bothers to.

google tries to fill the result page with a small subset of websites. A good thing for users most of the time and the easiest ad money but horrible for new players.

it use to be quite common for bloggers (and others) to follow everything written about them or of interest. google (blog search) and technorati were very useful for that kind of discovery.

The average user might never have noticed that but when it was killed off the www stopped being a community.

We can pretend the index is still there. If you cant get to it it's s much like the llm content.

[pierrefermat1]

It seems like in their mind the snake ate it's tail without realising, so they don't even know what's outside of Google's index.

[throwaway14356]

on the outside are people who could make websites but cant see the point of it. They are on Reddit on facebook on hn on twitter on youtube or they just don't bother. On platforms they make very crappy low effort content (with unearned audience) compared to what they could be making. There is room for casual chatter but almost anyone can make an effort to write down their perspective on something and with some practice enlighten someone or a lot of someones. One might become someone if only in the world of pokemon collectors.