Am I crazy to think a "human curated X" is less impossible than we think it is, even at scale?
Imagine if you could upvote/downvote Google search results, and got rewarded for being "right" or something...
Imagine if you could upvote/downvote Google search results, and got rewarded for being "right" or something...
A user-voted search engine is a good idea, I think.
Once upon a time, back in 1994, a startup used this idea as their first product. It was very popular, very useful. It was called Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.
But, as the WWW grew insanely fast in the 1990s, the human approach couldn't keep up with the algorithms. Eventually it was abandoned.