The kooky internet starts on the second or third page.
Most of the main entry points for the internet have been intercepted and squatted by "big internet". Google is where you go, and the top searches are all squatted throughout the front page and the ranking algorithm biases the bigger companies.
Even the "long tail" went through a period of ad revenue extraction/industrialization. So even those corners are wrapped by crappy aggregators and SEO spammers/interceptors. If there was a dime to be made, someone has tried it.
Actually, I'm wrong about my first statement. After the big companies/adwords spenders comes all the SEO spammers.
Google stopped caring about how SEO spammers drown out small corners of the internet since all their revenue is first page results/adwords.
Your best shot for kooky stuff is finding a kooky site that is pretty good, and doing a manual walkback of the google algorithm: find other pages that link/reference that kooky page and see what non-spam links are on those pages.
Hopefully you'll find some subreddits or discussion boards or other stuff that also centers around that kookiness.
I almost think that the old categories/directory/yellowpages style that is manually maintained used to hold good results for kooky subjects. But those all got closed off.
Most of the main entry points for the internet have been intercepted and squatted by "big internet". Google is where you go, and the top searches are all squatted throughout the front page and the ranking algorithm biases the bigger companies.
Even the "long tail" went through a period of ad revenue extraction/industrialization. So even those corners are wrapped by crappy aggregators and SEO spammers/interceptors. If there was a dime to be made, someone has tried it.
Actually, I'm wrong about my first statement. After the big companies/adwords spenders comes all the SEO spammers.
Google stopped caring about how SEO spammers drown out small corners of the internet since all their revenue is first page results/adwords.
Your best shot for kooky stuff is finding a kooky site that is pretty good, and doing a manual walkback of the google algorithm: find other pages that link/reference that kooky page and see what non-spam links are on those pages.
Hopefully you'll find some subreddits or discussion boards or other stuff that also centers around that kookiness.
I almost think that the old categories/directory/yellowpages style that is manually maintained used to hold good results for kooky subjects. But those all got closed off.