<story><title>Work on these things</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/work-on-these-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wslh</author><text>I would add new ways of searching in Internet. If I searched for food recipes in the 2000s I would find independent blogs with some real local&amp;#x2F;family taste. Now I have a hundreds of results from click bait sites with the same commoditized recipes and the ugly blog with a good recipe deep in the long tail. We can say that we need improvements in the long tail when the tail deserves to move up (or to the left in a xy chart).&lt;p&gt;Internet search is a driver for the world economy, a tiny improvement would improve the life of entrepreneurs and their ecosystem beyond elite circles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>_fs</author><text>Are you saying that you don’t enjoy the 4 page life retelling story intermixed with countless ads and the same staged photo from 5 different angles and 4 different focal points when you just want to see the recipe? Luckily, there is an extension to parse all that out.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sean-public&amp;#x2F;RecipeFilter&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sean-public&amp;#x2F;RecipeFilter&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Work on these things</title><url>https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/12/work-on-these-things.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wslh</author><text>I would add new ways of searching in Internet. If I searched for food recipes in the 2000s I would find independent blogs with some real local&amp;#x2F;family taste. Now I have a hundreds of results from click bait sites with the same commoditized recipes and the ugly blog with a good recipe deep in the long tail. We can say that we need improvements in the long tail when the tail deserves to move up (or to the left in a xy chart).&lt;p&gt;Internet search is a driver for the world economy, a tiny improvement would improve the life of entrepreneurs and their ecosystem beyond elite circles.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gombosg</author><text>IMHO this is because of SEO. Whatever algorithms search companies make, those who exploit them (called SEO, whatever the hat color is) will have an advantage over those who don&amp;#x27;t.</text></comment>