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I'd love the following combination: * A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites. * Community functionality to vote on the contents of

I'd love the following combination: * A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites. * Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist.

jraph 3y ago
Or have it crawl anything but be able to provide allow lists the way uBlock Origin allows picking block lists. But I'm not sure I would want an allow list approach. How to you run into new interesting websites? How would people find your new website? A block list would be good though.
- siva7 3y ago
  when was the last time you found a new interesting website over google search? i can’t even remember and i used google daily.
  - jraph 3y ago
    I don't use Google, but I certainly want my search engine to return interesting and relevant stuff I don't know about. I don't keep track of my discoveries, but I found some cool recipes even recently hosted on (sometimes independent) websites I didn't know.
basch 3y ago
Ive wondered, with 200,000 employees, how close you could get to something useful, by tasking them all with part time wiki editing/building. Hand build an internal ranking of web quality, keeping in mind that different posts being high quality, don't automatically make all posts at that host domain quality. The surfacing of information could still be very automated.
slig 3y ago
Have you seen https://search.brave.com/help/goggles https://search.brave.com/help/goggles ?
- neovialogistics 3y ago
  Thanks, this seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll use it for a few days and see what I think.
whiplash451 3y ago
I think you.com is close to your first bullet point
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tester756 3y ago
>* A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites. Great way to kill neutral, organic web?
- throw9away6 3y ago
  That’s basically Google already. They optimized for a few sites and let the rest go to shit.
layer8 3y ago
> * Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist. This would become a community of mostly SEO spammers very fast.

I'd love the following combination: * A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites. * Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist.

jraph 3y ago

Or have it crawl anything but be able to provide allow lists the way uBlock Origin allows picking block lists. But I'm not sure I would want an allow list approach. How to you run into new interesting websites? How would people find your new website? A block list would be good though.

siva7 3y ago
when was the last time you found a new interesting website over google search? i can’t even remember and i used google daily.
- jraph 3y ago
  I don't use Google, but I certainly want my search engine to return interesting and relevant stuff I don't know about. I don't keep track of my discoveries, but I found some cool recipes even recently hosted on (sometimes independent) websites I didn't know.

basch 3y ago

Ive wondered, with 200,000 employees, how close you could get to something useful, by tasking them all with part time wiki editing/building. Hand build an internal ranking of web quality, keeping in mind that different posts being high quality, don't automatically make all posts at that host domain quality. The surfacing of information could still be very automated.

slig 3y ago

Have you seen https://search.brave.com/help/goggles https://search.brave.com/help/goggles ?

neovialogistics 3y ago
Thanks, this seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll use it for a few days and see what I think.

whiplash451 3y ago

I think you.com is close to your first bullet point

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tester756 3y ago

>* A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites. Great way to kill neutral, organic web?

throw9away6 3y ago
That’s basically Google already. They optimized for a few sites and let the rest go to shit.

layer8 3y ago

> * Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist. This would become a community of mostly SEO spammers very fast.