The internet is unusable now
Written from the ground perspective of general web consumption, but those who moved to higher ground looking for better places to surf the web with higher quality signal &#x2F; data,  saw this problem coming a long while ago.   The web moved from being something that served its users, to one that needed to censor the signal &#x2F; information some people were looking for, due to groupthink (eg politics,) due to copyright or other concerns.   First we lost the fantastic web string search engines that could really pinpoint topics, than regular search engines depowered slowly in spits and spats in the decade that followed.  Then a few years ago the tables turned and suddenly search engines figured they didn&#x27;t really need to compete very hard ... here we are today,  no more 1000 or 2000 results if the user wants to look over that list,  it seems the main crawler search engines have agreed to serve a handful of results instead, fuck the people, what are they going to do about it ...<p>I have long toyed (since 2011) to address this very BS,  with the idea of creating a new simple web format, but token fee for access, the likes of the music and movie industry reps need to pay a $$$$$$$$$ fee to have a limited account, BS search engines are banned outright (along with LLM,)  various site types declared by default (ie banner, or a redirector) as well as each page having a token to sum up what it is, eg not spam or spam,  - however I&#x27;ve long recognised everything my poor head has been through the last couple of decades I&#x27;m frankly not equipped to do it.   Oh well, I guess at some point someone will strike on the same type of idea.