Shemp stands for Simple Hyperlink Exchange Mapping Portal. Shemp curates a collection of links across the internet on a wide array of topics.
Worldwideweb is broken. The internet felt much bigger when it was much smaller. Now it's huge and we relegate all of our attention to a handful of social media and discussion platforms.
Search engines give you only what is "search engine optimized" regardless if it's good or not and often times will refer you to social media or discussion platforms
before giving you anything that's worthwhile. On top of this may search engines are pushing LLMs onto it's users along with a messy interface that gives you shopping
interfaces, AI overviews, youtube videos, reddit and quora links you didn't ask for or want.
I remember searching Yahoo! in the late 90s and what I got in return was Yahoo! doing it's best to give me what I was looking for as well as a related web directory.
Often times that web directory would be a better gateway of what I was looking for than the Yahoo! search result itself. Also back then
many people had to create their own webpages rather than just throw garbage up on social media as it didn't exist. Platforms are also leaving more to be desired.
Finding it difficult to find topics on youtube without running into AI slop and at times I struggle to find old videos as well when I know they still exist.
We are never going to get old internet ever again but we should try to curate some of it anyway. Example, I will search for stock trading platforms on some one
of these web directories and instead I will get websites for a foreign country's stock exchange or some city's chamber of commerce. Sad.
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