For sure. I think there is both demand and it's possible to scale it. We have examples of amazingly successful group curation at scale with wikipedia, stackover

For sure. I think there is both demand and it's possible to scale it. We have examples of amazingly successful group curation at scale with wikipedia, stackoverflow etc. We also have forum platforms that successfully curate information, Reddit, HN etc (which many people use to find better recommendations than Google). However, the value in curation is only on a particular subset of queries. Those where you want to discover information and have some introductory terms to go on ("Motorbike Safety", "Analytics SAAS", "Buying a Fridge" etc). What youre looking for is an expert in a niche area to point you in the right direction. Curation is very beneficial here. The second type of query, where you are looking for a specific piece of information (specific business, specific book review, weird fact) etc Google already does fine on. And curation wont help (nor will it scale on such precise info).