[sitkack]

When people really seek, not just jamming words into a search box, but really seek they become the mind of the person producing the wisdom. Any one search engine is a window onto a huge sea.

Search results are needles on an iceberg. The rest is up to the seeker.

[john_other_john]

I'm confused, because I understand your comment to mean, that if I set out to learn something, by commitment alone, I recreate within my mind the tutor's knowledge and vision.

I should dearly love that to be the case, the real possibility.

I don't think that was the subject of my comment, however.

My concern is that search engines are limiting information quality by nature of making most money when they provide the shallowest and most common presumptions for results.

[sitkack]

Search engines want to steer you back onto a profitable path. Google shows you only what the crowd has decided to show you. PageRank by definition shows the most popular stuff, not the best or most important. One then has to find different vectors to the destination.

But to find truly unique, esoteric knowledge requires being the mind of the producer, then one can route around the thought terminating search engine algorithms. A search engine is only the first 10% or so of the journey.