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I'd love to see a Wikipedia styled search where people can improve or flag results as they see fit. I wonder if that has been tried.

Sure it might not handle the long long tail but the top ten million searches would still be pretty useful.

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I think Google once mentioned that each day a surprising amount of searches are unique. They were never done before. If memory serves me correct that number was 30-40%.

Even if that's true, 60% is still pretty useful.

I'd like to see such search as well. But I think the long tail queries results may not be so bad compared to the current ones, because, especially for obscure queries that end up being searched only a very small number of times per week, the risk of malicious manipulation is (I think) lower and the documents people end up their search with is a good indicator of relevant result.

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