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You're right :( as a kid I could type 'vampires' on Google and get a bunch of cool html 3 websites from random people who also liked vampires and wanted to talk about them on their websites dedicated to the topic. It didn't even matter if the information was false it was just fun seeing new websites. This was before twilight, fandoms etc. It was just people talking about something they liked. They might even make the website black and red and play some music on it to put you in the mood.
Now type the same word on Google and you get wikipedia, britannica, news media (BBC, Nat Geo etc), IMDB because there's a movie etc. You know, just in case you're the one person in the world who knows how to use Google but not Wikipedia.
And that's when Google doesn't outright change your query for something else. At least lenmygrad brings back some of this.
Full of vampire porn.
/j
SEO society and it's consequences
I don't even know if there's even SEO to speak of still after they brought an update ~2022 where the top results are dominated by the usual big websites (mainly wikipedia, britannica, and tons of mainstream media). It's like no matter what I look for it's the same websites. Video game? Steam page. Movie? IMDB. Current events? Al Jazeera (for some reason lol), BBC, Guardian, etc. What is even the point of a search engine if it's only going to redirect you to e-commerce products (this is also a big one I forgot about, every image search now is products you can buy) and the top 10 visited websites in the world. I can also do a search on imdb directly.
And if you type a common word that is also the name of a movie good luck finding anything but the movie. It used to be better and it bothers me that younger people will grow up in a world where me saying this will sound like I'm rambling about nostalgia or something because all they will have known is shitty search engines, but no, it used to work perfectly well!!