Filtering out that sort of thing is either too expensive or too complicated to bother with. > We're coming back around to the pre-Google era of search engine r

Filtering out that sort of thing is either too expensive or too complicated to bother with. > We're coming back around to the pre-Google era of search engine result quality. A solution is just to formalize this process. Does a site have a high reputation? Then return its results. What makes a high reputation? Can't really quantify "quality content", but you can say "a lack of slop", good citations, and fact checking. There's really no such thing as "reputation quantization" (as far as I know), but it would certainly help address the "slop" problem.