Is part of what makes google less useful their attempt to "curate"? It's worth thinking about what constitutes curation. I would say that adapting results tow

Is part of what makes google less useful their attempt to "curate"? It's worth thinking about what constitutes curation. I would say that adapting results towards expected customer preferences (eg giving pet owners and programmers different results for "getting started with python") is curation. Perhaps more controversially, so too is the pruning of results at all – if most of what I'm searching for is spam/malware, then so be it. Search engines are already very curated, IMO. There's room to differentiate by choosing NOT to curate. I would be curious to use a search engine that used nothing but PageRank circa ~2006. Pedantically, any algorithm/ranking/weighting system is unavoidably curatory by design. But to answer what I think you mean, yes, I think there's room for opinionated search engines for many values of "opinionated". Another way to think of these might be "contexts" that you apply overtop of a search engine, and perform many searches within that context. For example, when I'm searching for front end things, I wish google were smart enough to time-scope my searches dynamically using knowledge I don't have. I search for Mongoose operations and get top results from 2011 saying X doesn't exist, but it was added in 2016. I would like to see only results from when the thing I wanted existed. But only ever searching the last two years all the time costs results that would be helpful in other times. When searching for device repair instructions, I wish the engine were able to adopt my estimations about sites that aggregate forum replies or repair instructions in automated ways to gather clicks, and either banish them or loudly mark them. I'm not sure how to do this with major traction, or without being eaten by google, but "ecosystem of many opinionated and accurate search contexts" feels like it would add value to the world.