My Melancholy Web
When this all began in the early 90s you could put up a site and it was indexed. Now, you have to wait several months or more to see if and where you’ll land.
In the old days, the chances of the best site pulling above the fold was pretty good. Now, that’s not the case. You have to weed through ad sites, dead sites and sites that are just a mess (or have the most inbound links which makes them the best dontcha know!).
Before search engine rankings and getting found became a science fair project, Google actually was the best search engine around. Now, those who know better know better.
Years ago, searchers were so mesmerized with this new technology that they visited site after site looking for the best info they could find. Now, they simply click on the first link they come across assuming tacit approval from the search engine bi-polar algorithms. You know what happens when you assume?
At the start forward thinkers were willing to try new things, experiment and think outside the box whether there was even a box or not. Now, we just want packaged solutions that make things happen with no effort and the least amount of expense.
In the beginning, folks like me had allot to learn. And it was like a drug — we couldn’t get enough, we learned new things almost every hour on the hour and still wanted to learn more! It was downright exciting — and for me it still is — but it seems to be a dwindling club I belong to. Now, many choose to be lemmings not leaders.
Ahhhh, the good old days…
At your service,
Judith
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You’re absolutely right. This past hour is a good example for me. I was searching through the blogsphere to see what people were saying about melancholy and google’s been leading me to some pretty worthless places. Your blog is one of the only posts I’ve read so far worth commenting on :) Thanks for the hard truth
Hey, Ben:
Thanks for stopping by and reading even though my post probably wasn’t what you were looking for — but then being you type about melancholy — you were destined to find this post and I’m glad you took the time to comment.
One of the neat things about online is finding others you would have never otherwise met. Stopped by your Blog and I love the design and your musings– melancholy can be a good thing because many times it helps to put things in perspective!
At your service,
Judith