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I'd love the following combination:

* A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites.

* Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist.

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Ive wondered, with 200,000 employees, how close you could get to something useful, by tasking them all with part time wiki editing/building. Hand build an internal ranking of web quality, keeping in mind that different posts being high quality, don't automatically make all posts at that host domain quality. The surfacing of information could still be very automated.

Have you seen https://search.brave.com/help/goggles ?

Thanks, this seems to be a step in the right direction. I'll use it for a few days and see what I think.

Or have it crawl anything but be able to provide allow lists the way uBlock Origin allows picking block lists.

But I'm not sure I would want an allow list approach. How to you run into new interesting websites? How would people find your new website? A block list would be good though.

when was the last time you found a new interesting website over google search? i can’t even remember and i used google daily.

I don't use Google, but I certainly want my search engine to return interesting and relevant stuff I don't know about.

I don't keep track of my discoveries, but I found some cool recipes even recently hosted on (sometimes independent) websites I didn't know.

>* A search engine that only crawls and searches a whitelist of sites.

Great way to kill neutral, organic web?

That’s basically Google already. They optimized for a few sites and let the rest go to shit.

> * Community functionality to vote on the contents of the whitelist.

This would become a community of mostly SEO spammers very fast.

I think you.com is close to your first bullet point

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