But I don't feel like manual curation by one person is easily compatible with search engine. To me the content of your website is more suited to a weekly newsletter or something like that. Because after trying a few search "getting a job in vc", "best computer chair", "learning erlang" I'm not confident this answer better results than Google.
You've got a content size problem as you are manually curating, and this will lead to people not use your search as a default, and probably not use it as a search engine, but instead as a discovery system.
You can also try to get more blogs on your search engine, and create a community around it, if you want more more, you can follow this newsletter [1] and you will get probably 5 new blogs per day.
Congratz on the job, this is very cool