True. DrudgeReport, World Net Daily, NewsMax. Ironically, though, the information that was on the web was more accessible through search. That was before the search engines started filtering results. If you searched for "Clinton body count," the top 50 search results were on target. Now, they're sent to the bottom of the stack.
oh geez don't get me started on search engines lol . used to be you could text search for literally anything. I got online in 1994 I think it was. I eventually worked for ZDNet and then Cnet in their windows help forums, basically got paid to moonlight doing what I started out doing for free- helping newbies deal with windows 3.11. Those companies really set money on fire back then lol It lasted about a year or two before they realized no-one was going to get rich out of thin air. Later they realized patents and selling personal data and helping government rob their people was the way to go.
The AltaVista search engine let you do a true Boolean search, using parentheses and search terms. I could zero in on what I wanted with drone-like accuracy. Then Google came along with its idiot-simple search algorithm. AltaVista was bought by Yahoo, which tossed out AltaVista's search engine and replaced it with Yahoo's feckless search. Why? Why do they deliberately dumb things down?
It was exciting, I was on those threads at the time. Plus, there really weren't many other places to go at the time.
True. DrudgeReport, World Net Daily, NewsMax. Ironically, though, the information that was on the web was more accessible through search. That was before the search engines started filtering results. If you searched for "Clinton body count," the top 50 search results were on target. Now, they're sent to the bottom of the stack.
oh geez don't get me started on search engines lol . used to be you could text search for literally anything. I got online in 1994 I think it was. I eventually worked for ZDNet and then Cnet in their windows help forums, basically got paid to moonlight doing what I started out doing for free- helping newbies deal with windows 3.11. Those companies really set money on fire back then lol It lasted about a year or two before they realized no-one was going to get rich out of thin air. Later they realized patents and selling personal data and helping government rob their people was the way to go.
The AltaVista search engine let you do a true Boolean search, using parentheses and search terms. I could zero in on what I wanted with drone-like accuracy. Then Google came along with its idiot-simple search algorithm. AltaVista was bought by Yahoo, which tossed out AltaVista's search engine and replaced it with Yahoo's feckless search. Why? Why do they deliberately dumb things down?