Skip to content
Global sound
Cognitive Engineering

Cognitive Engineering

Crap Internet

· 32 min · Episode 386

Show notes

Click bait and switch: has the internet swapped out knowledge for monetisation?

Search engine optimisation, advertising run amok, users as customers: has the internet become a little bit crap and, if so, how do we fix it? In this podcast, we discuss the problem with the internet's funding model, whether it could learn a thing or two from the BBC, and continue a seemingly futile quest for a decent cheese-ranking website.

A few things we mentioned in this podcast:

- Is Google Getting Worse? https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf
- Hacker News forum says ‘yes’ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013497
- How Google is killing independent websites https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/
- Dead Internet Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
- The Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

For more information on Aleph Insights visit our website https://alephinsights.com or to get in touch about our podcast email [email protected]

Website: podcast.alephinsights.com

Live, last hour: 2,182 songs on 7,706 stations in 142 countries

Discover the world through radio

More ways to discover (9)

Heard something good? Save it, or open it straight away in Spotify.

Radio 538 luisteren - Live!Popular right now