There have been a few attempts at a crowdsourced-rank search engine (which is similar to what you're suggesting - people indexing the content), but it seems to

There have been a few attempts at a crowdsourced-rank search engine (which is similar to what you're suggesting - people indexing the content), but it seems to be a hard cookie, most of the examples of similar ideas I could find on ProductHunt or ShowHN seem dead: https://payperrun.com/%3E/search?displayParams={%22q%22:%22crowdsourced%20ranke20search%20engine%22,%22ds%22:%22showhn%22} https://payperrun.com/%3E/search?displayParams={%22q%22:%22c... (btw, I just launched this llm-embedding based search service that lets you check if a startup idea has already been tried/failed). I don't know if this idea has a higher death rate than the baseline, but my guess is Google/PageRank is good enough for most use-cases, and then if you want quality sources, you can just follow them on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Wait, maybe I shouldn't try to compete with Google?