Certainly the algorithm on all these Hive frontends is absolutely terrible. Rather than surfacing anything interesting, it just always shows off the exact same people. Which creates the game where people try to get more and more autovotes not only for the money but also so that they will show up in the trending algorithm. If we want to fix Hive, the algorithm would be a great place to start.

Yeah, it's probably be difficult to get all of Hive indexed by Google. But that said, there still are a lot of good posts on Hive that should be indexed. I'd rather read a personal blog post here any day than one of the annoying SEO list posts from Medium ("Ten reasons why your posts suck and how to fix it" or "How I made 10 Gajillion dollars from my Writing in 2 Weeks") that Google has indexed.