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 6-9 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…

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