[leobg]

True. I’m wondering though if he hasn’t given up on the idea. It’s been ten years. Maybe he doesn’t believe anymore that a human could do better, even if given 15 minutes of time?

If such a demand exists, should we not be seeing an active “secondary marketplace” for people offering to do 15-minute human meta search & research tasks?

[nobbis]

I said "wanted it" not "wanted to build/finance it." Doubt he's given up wanting it.

A human can always do better: take Google's results, then remove SEO spam/duplicates, extract more relevant snippets, combine results from multiple nearby queries, etc.

Demand exists, but someone has to build it. And it's unclear how big the market is.