Comment on What were some ways old community sites grew before stuff like search engine optimization became prevalent?

YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I remember a pre-search engine era, but that didn’t last too long. First there was Yahoo!, then Altavista, then Google came on the scene and changed everything. God those early Google days were amazing; it felt like if it existed on the web, Google could find it for you with the right search input.

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  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1995-2000 we saw a lot of progress online.

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    • andrewta@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then around 2005 it went sideways in many ways it went backwards

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