The article closes with, "In some sense, Blekko's approach is more democratic--if any content is good enough for your friends, it's probably good enough for you

The article closes with, "In some sense, Blekko's approach is more democratic--if any content is good enough for your friends, it's probably good enough for you too." If I'm going to use a social search, I want to see things that: 1) Are liked by at least one of my friends. 2) Are not explicitly disliked by (a meaningful threshold, perhaps as few as 1) of my friends. And really, I'm not so sure that I trust #1, but #2 could be useful to me. Especially when "friends" gets replaced with "Hacker News," then I'm much more interested. In other words, I don't trust the sensitivity of a social network to get me what I need; I may have interests that reach beyond those of any of my associates. However, I do, to an extent, trust its specificity for identifying badness, and that's why I might consider a "social"-esque search filtering service. Actually, Gabe, have you ever considered creating some sort of collaborative filtering tool for duckduck?