> This is extremely ironic, since Google originally rose to popularity because it was much better at "real" search than the competitors. Here's a thought I had

> This is extremely ironic, since Google originally rose to popularity because it was much better at "real" search than the competitors. Here's a thought I had while reading your comment... what about a hybrid of HN/lobste.rs/reddit and old-school hierarchical lists. Basically, a place where people can upload websites and such that are relevant to a search term. Say you wanted to know about "how to make bread". You would first check if this query is already defined, creating it if not. Then, you could comment/post links on the topic, and see other's links sorted by some hybrid of upvotes/downvotes and human moderation/curation. The point would less be about having a discussion, but more crowd-sourcing "what pages are most relevant to this query". From the perspective of a user who doesn't participate, this looks like a hierarchically sorted collection of queries/topics and links relevant thereto, sorted by relevance.