I use search engines for two reasons: - to gather compressed information quickly - to navigate the web The first point is best served by sources that I like

I use search engines for two reasons: - to gather compressed information quickly - to navigate the web The first point is best served by sources that I like and trust, often authoritative to some degree. If they already have a good search (like MDN or Wikipedia) I will often use that directly or go via DDG: !mdn keyords..., !wiki keywords... If not, I type the name of the website as a keyword in front (like reddit...) The second is really more about finding specific types of websites. For example John Smith's blog that I don't remember etc. What I'm saying is that to fix the web, we need more sites that can act as the first point above. Whether they are wikis or not is more of a practical consideration. The point is that they don't suck and that there's not enough of them IMO.