The first two pages of a google search almost never surface blogs or personal websites anymore.
Every worthwhile question you could think to ask has been anticipated and occupied by search-engine-optimized by assholes.
The internet hasn't been free for a really long time.
Every worthwhile question you could think to ask has been anticipated and occupied by search-engine-optimized by assholes.
The internet hasn't been free for a really long time.
Technologist Kevin Kelly said the future belongs to people who know what questions to ask but I would counter that by insisting that the future belongs to whoever knows how to best cage the questioners.
If you really believe that the internet has the power to liberate humanity, then you have to find a way to liberate the internet from the assholes who found a way to profit by farming our attention.
I've been getting this shit all day from people like this 
ME: SEO is fucking up how information retrieval systems work and it's destroying the internet
PEOPLE WHO WORK IN SEO: it's not our fault you're too stupid to know how to game the system lady geez
PEOPLE WHO WORK IN SEO: it's not our fault you're too stupid to know how to game the system lady geez
you know, tv commercials, the most reputable source of information imaginable, yes
