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Google is killing websites (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 days ago by tetrabrick@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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Today I went to check the films available at the cinema at my local website and found that the website is going to be closed in a few days.

The website owners said that ads (served by google) do not get enough money to compensate the maintenance. It also cites the problem with Google search in which Google, when offering the results of searching for films, hijacks the top of the results with their own previews of available movies. The results are often wrong and sometimes missing movies shown a cinemas.

I’m kinda bummed, now I have to check 4 differente sites to get all the info.

Has anyone seen something similar to this to other website?

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[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We desperately need more small static websites that are mostly just some text and a few pictures.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely. You can still make some pretty beautiful looking static websites using well-crafted HTML and CSS instead of making the user download and execute 10 MB of JavaScript bullshit.

Not exactly the same thing, but I listened to a really interesting podcast featuring the founder of Neocities who went into great detail about how he was able to save massively on infrastructure costs by not just blindly tossing everything onto AWS or Azure (link below, transcript included):

https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/bringing-geocities-back-with-kyle-drake/

[–] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

Had no idea people have been trying to bring geocities back under a different name. That's awesome. Bring back the old web!