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I feel this would be solved if the search engine weighted results based on whether users trust the domains.
by worldsayshi 5y ago
I feel this would be solved if the search engine weighted results based on whether users trust the domains.
- aghilmort 5y agopretty much what we're doing at https://breezethat.com https://breezethat.com, a topic search engine - we currently curate domains / pages internally based on trust - we'll be adding an open low-code way for others to vote / moderate
- Lascaille 5y agoThat only works if you validate users, otherwise the trust database becomes 99% the result of the actions of SEO firms.
- worldsayshi 5y agoHmm, or you outsource the trust problem to your users. Let them select which domains to trust or who to trust to weight trustworthiness of domains for you. Imagine that user A can create a list of domains with trustworthiness score. User B can then use that list by going to user-a-awesome-curation.koogle.com?q=nice+shoes It might create filter bubbles but it would be transparent filter bubbles. You could even wikify/open source the curation.
- chaxor 5y agoDoesn't cloudfare do this? (extremely extensively imo - just about every single click is a captcha of some type sometimes) As much as HN despises blockchains because of crypto, (no, that's not the only use of that tech) it does seem like verification of websites could be a decentralized consensus - along with DNS as well -and user verification could be a portion of the consensus of website quality. This could even help with making self hosted search engines more accessable
- datavirtue 5y agoA lot of this could be solved if we could signal intent or context before searching. But that would require that you know how to use the tool which is a gargantuan user barrier from Google's point of view. Meanwhile, we have to hack about trying to signal context.