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Re:More content by people, for people in Search by bluecalm on Friday August 19, 2022 @06:20AM (#32519290)
Letting you blacklist a site is one thing. They could improve upon it by letting people downvote/upvote pages and then using their extensive information vault to decide who is somewhat reputable or just similar to you.

I mean, I am 40 years old programmer/entrepreneur interested in sports and traditional board and card games. I like nice restaurants and hotels and even sometimes write Google reviews on them. I have my Gmail account since the beginning and I am paying YouTube and Google services customer. I am using Google phones since the Nexus. Google knows who I am, what I like, where I visit. It's pretty good at estimating revenue of my company. What about using the info for something useful for once and just show me pages people like me liked and don't show me pages people like me think are spam/scam? Please?

Re:More content by people, for people in Search by Mordisquitos on Friday August 19, 2022 @07:56AM (#32519898)
That may sound promising on paper, but I give it at most 6 months before an up/downvote manipulation SEO industry emerges and starts destroying any burgeoning improvements in the quality of search results.
Re:More content by people, for people in Search by headsoup on Friday August 19, 2022 @08:30AM (#32520168)
Not to mention anything even slightly political or divisive in nature will quickly become chaos.