I think the point is that there are multiple sites like eHow, and searching each of them individually and then deciding which results were the best is sub-optimal. Plus, it prevents the serendipitous discovery of new sites like eHow.

If only there were a way to search multiple content farm sites at once, and rank those results according to how useful they were...

Google already does this, by its measure of "useful" (to you).

If you don't like it, you can search those sites directly. For example search for "ehow:how to ask a girl out"

was that so hard?

> Google already does this, by its measure of "useful" (to you).

The point was that they've been successfully more aggressively penalized, to the point where many of these sites are now no longer showing up more.

> If you don't like it, you can search those sites directly. For example search for "ehow:how to ask a girl out" was that so hard?

That defeats the primary purpose of using a general search engine - namely to get ranked results across a large number of sites.

But it is still doing its purpose. You can just tell it what you want to see.

I wish there was a way in Google to indicate you'd like to see results from a site ranked higher FOR YOU. I imagine they already learn that when you click on that domain in two separate searches.