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Im kind of amazed at the lack of search engine innovation. Why can't we explicitly rate results and have them be personalized to us(goodbye quora and wikihow)?
by tryptophan 5y ago
Im kind of amazed at the lack of search engine innovation. Why can't we explicitly rate results and have them be personalized to us(goodbye quora and wikihow)? Why can't we add tags to results, such as "ad bloated" and have that be taken into account for rankings?
It seems like such an obvious next step, but google is too rich for its own good at this point and doesnt need to do anything.
- wolpoli 5y agoFor the last three decades, search engines have been presenting results in descending order. While a lot of innovations have happened with the sorting algorithm, it hasn't fundamentally move forward from that. From a user point of view, it's frustrating to look through the result, finding a list of ads, a commercial site, a few videos, a definition, a wikipedia link, a commercial site, and so on. Instead, users have a pretty good idea of what kind of result they want. It would make it so much easier if the results are grouped together. For example, a search engine could group results under individual tabs, separating results from user generated content sites, forums, commerce and commercial blogs, Wikipedia, content farms, and so on. Within each tab, there could be subtabs grouping results under each domain. This would make searching the web a much less frustrating experience.