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I sometimes wonder if we would have had very good search engines if one of the Tech Giants invested in a huge amount of manual information entry/organization in

I sometimes wonder if we would have had very good search engines if one of the Tech Giants invested in a huge amount of manual information entry/organization instead of optimising around spam and junk websites. Like Encyclopedia Brittanica, but on steroids. With 500.000 editors and a couple millions volunteers instead of a couple hundred editors. Google has 135.000 people on staff right now, all very highly paid. They could have a massive advantage if they had their own unique dataset.

zozbot234 5y ago
> Like Encyclopedia Brittanica, but on steroids. With 500.000 editors and a couple millions volunteers instead of a couple hundred editors. DMOZ was pretty close to that, but freely available. And Google now has their Knowledge Graph, which is internally curated but largely fed from outside sources including the free Wikidata.