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the problem with curated search the first time around was that it was too hard to keep up. your curated index invariably fell behind. yahoo started out as a cur

the problem with curated search the first time around was that it was too hard to keep up. your curated index invariably fell behind. yahoo started out as a curated index of the internet and eventually went to algorithmic search because they couldn't keep up and that was in the 90s. i don't see how anyone could even conceive of keeping up now. perhaps you mean something more like the zero click search that duck duck go has?

suprgeek 16y ago
No I did mean curated. You bring up one of the key objections, with the web growing at the rate it is how do you keep up with curation? and I do have several ideas (but no pat single answer) - Google has effectively a cache of the web - These are the people who have figured out how to run rings around large data sets - MapReduce, BigTable, Colossus, etc - there are aspects of information provenance that can help fix some problems (and having a snapshot of the web should help) - Crowdsource some of the curation to improve quality - INVEST MORE in SEARCH and drop some of the other distractions - Resolve the basic conflict of interest with needing Ads to feed the bottom line but needing web users to use Google to get higher quality ad-free results - Few other more focused ideas (Really need to punch up a blog post soon :))