We need a human-written index of useful and informative websites like we did back in 1994. No more algorithms. There's no point in searching everything if 99% of everything is AI-written garbage.
Not that it’s perfect, but I think that’s part of the reason Wikipedia has been relatively unaffected by enshittification. Non-profit structure, articles written by human beings to be informative instead of satisfying SEO, subject to community review. It’s not that search engines in and of themselves are bad, it’s the profit-driven structure that ruins it.
Enshittification hit Google hard
We need a human-written index of useful and informative websites like we did back in 1994. No more algorithms. There's no point in searching everything if 99% of everything is AI-written garbage.
Not that it’s perfect, but I think that’s part of the reason Wikipedia has been relatively unaffected by enshittification. Non-profit structure, articles written by human beings to be informative instead of satisfying SEO, subject to community review. It’s not that search engines in and of themselves are bad, it’s the profit-driven structure that ruins it.