All that boredom is afoot

Don’t worry, things are not all bad. Boredom is afoot. Somewhere in the depths of that boredom is the spark of creativity we need. Maybe you might have noticed by completing a simple Google search for the title of this post which would let you know that, “No results found for "All that boredom is afoot". Maybe the crawler will have indexed this post by then, or perhaps it won’t and you will get the novel return of a completely unused string of words. Writers over at The Verge online have noted that even Google teams admit the open web as we know it is falling apart and has entered a period of decline [1]. We at one point surfed the internet endlessly looking for the end. Every once in a blue moon you actually found the end of the internet or at least a page that pretended to be the ironic end of the internet. Within the age of agent based interactions that novelty may have come to an end.

I’m pretty sure that I could easily set up a new hand curated browser with a simple search backend. It could free us from the SEO and AI slop of the moment. It would not solve the problem that the open web itself is in rapid decline. It might create a curated island of hope and maybe that makes it worth doing. Maybe our friends at Yahoo should never have decommissioned AltaVista. Maybe later today I’ll take some time and vibe code the new hand curated view into the internet. That sounds like it could be a fun thing to do for a couple of hours.

Footnotes:

[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/773928/google-open-web-rapid-decline