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The problem with this idea is that it’s way too much effort for the average individual to curate their search this way. And if the results are bad, I don’t know
by stingraycharles 4y ago
The problem with this idea is that it’s way too much effort for the average individual to curate their search this way. And if the results are bad, I don’t know whether it’s my search query, the way I curated things, or your search algorithm.
- qwertox 4y agoThis could get fixed via an extension which contains a list of those authors you trust and then read extract the key from the article in order to verify it. It's not like you have to do this with every article you read, but for those where you do care about the integrity of the information, you'd have this extra support.
- moffkalast 4y agoFeels like you could use the existing https cert that everyone already needs to have for this, no?
- qwertox 4y agoThese certs are tied to a domain, not to a person.
- notahacker 4y agoThis. Outsourcing the credibility assessment to the link graph was the whole point of PageRank, because most people wouldn't know where to start with whitelisting sources for their query (and if they did, a general web search engine wouldn't be where they started). If I want pg's opinion on startups, I go to his blog. If I want to find a venue near me, or the web presence for a company somebody has mentioned, or a description of a particular phenomenon I'm not familiar with, or whether a particular error message has been seen by other people, or where to buy something, or some information on a place in a foreign country or what Foo means, I don't want to start off by specifying who I trust to provide this information. And even if I did, I suspect I'd be disappointed by how little information Paul Graham, my favourite YouTubers and the Pope had to offer on any of these subjects.