it seems that the web has for at least a decade already been at the point where a search engine that is built to be useful by humans should (ideally, but appare

it seems that the web has for at least a decade already been at the point where a search engine that is built to be useful by humans should (ideally, but apparently impossible with the current skewed incentives due to ad business considerations, overheated stock market, over-enthusiastic ML expert workforce, etc.) index only sites that opt _in_, vetted by humans. there is a clear upper bound on the amount of total legitimate web content, and that upper bound is not prohibitively high -- linear on the total number of coherent-content-producing humans with only so many hours in a day and only so many years of adequate brain functioning (and not on the amount of whatever computing resources that are thrown in to support whatever algorithmic content fire hoses that the currently-dominant search engines contend with).