There must be someone at HN somewhere in the Google pyramid who can tell someone with decent clout about this proposal.
There must be some way Google's search engine could learn by looking at the blacklists people uses.
There must be some way Google's search engine could learn by looking at the blacklists people uses.
Now, it's possible that SearchWiki just needed a few more iterations, and with a few details changed, could be a big success. There have been a few other recent launches that were tried years ago, didn't work then, but had a few more iterations and now are big successes. I could at least raise the issue. But unless I can tell a convincing story about why people would use this when they didn't use SearchWiki, it may be an uphill battle to get resources devoted to this.
Compare that to the GMail labs. It's pitiful.
They already have the exact opposite curation feature: the star system. And it's crazy.
When I search, and click one of the 10 results, and the result turns out to be satisfying, the last thing I want to do is click the back button and star it.
When the result turns out to be spam I necessarily have to hit the back button and try again. Staring me in the face is the now-purple link spam - let me X it.
Personal blacklists are the least Google could do, because my SERP is never going to be perfect. Feeding those blacklists back into the general SERP population is an interesting research project.