>Search plays a huge part in this shit show too. Is this not something we (ie 'people on HN with the appropriate skill sets who are miffed at the state of the

>Search plays a huge part in this shit show too. Is this not something we (ie 'people on HN with the appropriate skill sets who are miffed at the state of the web') are actually in a position to do something about? Maybe we need a search engine that's specifically there to index sites that aren't aggressively monetised, or even excludes commercial web content altogether. We'd need some heuristics to figure out how heavily monetised a site is and obviously we'd want to favour self-hosted sites and forums rather than centralised blogging platforms and things like Reddit. This wouldn't be aimed at replacing DDG or other generalised search engines, it'd just scratch that itch of 'where do I find web 1.0 style content that's not endless ad-ridden cruft and SEO spam?'.