[arminiusreturns]

I've often thought one approach, though one I wouldn't necessarily want to be the standard paradigm, would be exclusivity based on usefulness.

So for example duckduckgo is still trying to use various providers to emulate essentially "early google without the modern google privacy violations", but when I start to think about many of the most successful company-netizens, one thing that stands out is early day exclusivity has a major appeal.

So I imagine a search engine that is only crawling the most useful websites and blogs and works on a whitelist basis. Instead of trying to order search results to push bad results down, just don't include them at all or give them a chance to taint the results. It would have more overhead, and would take a certain amount of time to make sure it was catching non-major websites that are still full of good info ... but once that was done it would probably be one of the best search panes in existence. I have also thought to streamline this, and I know it's cliche, but surely there could be some ml analysis applied to figuring out which sites are SEO gaming or click-baiting regurgitators and weed them out.

Just something I've been mulling over for a while now.

[Mauricio_]

And how do you determine which websites are good other than checking if they are doing seo? Is reddit.com good or bad? If a good site that does seo should it be taken out?

And what if what you're searching exists only in a non good website? Isn't it better to show a result from a non good website than showing nothing?