I would have gotten so excited about something like that 20 years ago, I would have yelled “Yahoo!” from the top of my lungs.

Maybe Yahoo's time has come again! Maybe Google's decline started when they no longer had competition from Yahoo?

The interesting thing would be coming up with a sustainable business model for it. One way might be the users pay for it, either per-search or per-month. This way the incentives to provide good search results align with the interests of the people doing the searching, not the people being searched.

The people who want to be searched would have an incentive to make a quality site that the search service would believe would please their customers.

I can think of people willing to pay for quality searches - professionals looking for things they need, like programmers, lawyers, researchers, etc.

>The interesting thing would be coming up with a sustainable business model for it.

Even though I loathe ads, I wouldn't mind one simple, clearly designated ad spawned from keywords in the search. No tracking and no cross site linking. No result promoting, etc...

And yes, I believe that the current iteration of the web requires human moderation to be usefully searched.

Like the old goto.com

Honestly, if we're going to go old school, I vote Dogpile.

Let's start pitting the searches against each other again.

At least France and Belgium have public websites with the information sheets of all authorized drugs. I think at least the French one generally comes up in the first results on Google (when searching from a French connection).

This is the kind of public service the FDA should be doing.

pretty much what we're building at breezethat.com -- currently launching about one topic / week, and opening door soon so others can curate / moderate a topic

Humans can also game systems to promote their garbage if they care to. Spammers can hire a click farm to privilege garbage results. Spammers and scammers seem to see enough returns to invest in ways to game the internet’s openness. There would need to be some kind of trust system to make the curation trustworthy.

If the curation is bad, will people keep paying their subscriptions?

I’m not sure what you’re talking about wrt prescriptions. I just googled “diazepam” and got all the information on my pharmacy insert, and more. And often, more clearly presented.