[xahrepap]

I know there’s some serious chicken/egg issue here, and solves a different problem than Google or DDG. but I think what I need is a way to “Like” or “Favorite” a page I’m on (maybe just a bookmark?) and that triggers my personal search indexer which will then index that page.

Then maybe optionally “follow” other people’s favorites as part of your own results. Imagine someone crawling Twitter or SoF and you just “follow” their index and it gets merged with your results and disable/enable them for specific searches.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately because I often am trying to remember something that helped me or I wanted to remember. But I can’t find it in my FF history. And Bookmarks feel too clunky.

[Gigachad]

In the end there is no perfect solution because the whole thing is gamed too much. Eventually spam sites will start paying popular users to like their spam page.

[Buttons840]

This attitude is too defeatist, and I'm not convinced. The OP's suggestion was that people would choose which other "favorite lists" or "indexes" they follow, this implies these are public. Who's going to follow someone who puts a StackOverflow clone filled with ads on their list? And if they do, and it shows in my results, I should be able to discover that someone I'm "following" has been compromised, and I'll unfollow them.

[Gigachad]

This would have been said a million times for social media and yet most large personalities are filled with paid sponsorships and no one really cares.

[RileyJames]

Are large personalities not “unique”, and followed for the uniqueness of their character?

Where as the “moderator of a filter” is followed on the basis of their output, the filter itself.

I don’t disagree with your statement, but I don’t find it a compelling counterargument to the suggested solution.

[bussiere]

try bookmark service like pinboard.in they have a search engine when you can search by keyword ...

[chupchap]

Google tried that with their plus button, but it went away along with Google Plus.