I agree that it is hard to find interesting things in Second Life, especially as the internal search functionality seems to be quite crappy (like so many other aspects of the interface). That doesn't say anything about the creativity going on, though - it only means that the search engine is broken. I tend to read about interesting places in Second Life in blogs. Several web pages try to address the search problem for Second Life, too.

At the times when I was just trying my luck with the internal search engine, I found interesting places, too. Many of them were abandoned, that is true, but that doesn't imply that they were boring.

What would you do as a first time user of the World Wide Web? Would you be able to find interesting web pages right away?