Building a Search Engine Completely Changed How I Use the Internet

Before I started building a search engine, I thought ranking results was mostly about finding the most relevant page.

Now I spend a lot of time thinking about spam, duplicate content, SEO manipulation, freshness, authority, and how small ranking changes can completely change what people discover.

It's made me realize there isn't a single "correct" search result. Every search engine is making tradeoffs, whether they tell users or not.

That's one of the reasons I started building Slick. I wanted users to have more control over those tradeoffs instead of treating one ranking algorithm as objectively correct.

Building a search engine has changed the way I browse the web.

Has building your product changed how you think about the industry you're in?