--- "Miller, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:44 AM
> > To: Brin-L
> > Subject: Internet is dying - Prof. Lessig
> >
> > Google has its own spam problems: a tiny number of webloggers
> > and list-makers whose mindless hyperlinks degrade the value
> > of its search results, and create the Web equivalent of TV static.
> >
> > Basic web surfing means navigating through web sites whose
> > inspiration for their baroque overdesign seems to have been
> > Donald Trump's wedding cake,
>
> *snort* what elitist... why I outta... Look, ugly web pags and blog are
> EXACTLY the dream of the internet empowering people to publish and
> communicate on their own. It just turns out that most people have horrible
> taste in colors, like things that go "beep beep", and having nothing to say
> that is of interest to anyone outside their closest circle.
>
In 1997 if you were to use web-crawler to find some bit of information you
desired it would take only a few minutes and the search results would be very
benificial.
In 1999 Altavista would give you slightly more "noise" but still first page
results were usefull.
In 2001 Google was decent, but the results you desired were on the second or
third page.
Now in 2003 You may not get any results which are benificial from any result
on any search site. The vast majority of web "destinations" are garbage.
There is so much noise now that real information might as well not be there.
At one point you could find into faster on the web. Now it is faster to look
in an encyclopida or in the lybrary. The internet as an information resource
is all but dead.
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