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transitorykristoday at 3:47 PM6 repliesview on HN

What’s old is new again. In the 90s we used services like Submit It to get an URL into all the crawlers and indices. Now the search engines aren’t the challenge, it’s the sites targeting specific audiences.


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dofmtoday at 3:54 PM

Was that creaking sound your knee or mine?

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hexajontoday at 5:22 PM

Ha, a new/old webring. If you are reading this and know what that is, it's time for your prostate/mammogram check-up.

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rognjentoday at 4:45 PM

And don't forget StumbleUpon...

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moebrownetoday at 3:59 PM

Kinda reminds me of DMoz.

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Barbingtoday at 4:03 PM

> Now the search engines aren’t the challenge

Although it can still be a gamble whether a small site made it to DuckDuckGo (Bing’s crawler)

But that only affects about seven of us anyway so your point stands

> Submit It

Trying to remember a different one…

htx80nerdtoday at 5:22 PM

ya i cant believe im seeing this again