alp on Nostr: There's a long history behind this that goes back to the 2000s, when there were lots ...

There's a long history behind this that goes back to the 2000s, when there were lots of weblogs and they became too powerful. Weblogs had good markup, were naturally better optimized for search engines, and bloggers linked to each other like crazy. Commercial, self contained websites couldn't compete. That led to situations where if someone famous wrote in their weblog "the new BMW model is garbage," that post would rank higher than the BMW website itself. You can imagine how much that pissed off the companies. So they did something about it. And within 3 or 4 years Google manipulated their internal trust rank and the PageRank algorithm was dead. That's why search results were so terrible by the end of the 2010s. And still are.