Quality search engine?
Google is an admirable search engine but the results often contain a lot of spam or other useless sites. According to Search Engine Land, the alternative search engine Hakia is going to try to do better:
The Hakia blog explains how the engine is taking a “quality” approach, trying to assess the credibility of sites in ranking them, together with the help of professional librarians. Hakia specifically discusses this in the context of health-related search and contrasts its approach with that of “popularity,” a general reference to Google’s original PageRank algorithm.
The company says that it will roll out “Quality Search” in a range of verticals — “law, finance, science, and in many other content-rich verticals” — based upon expert sources and librarian-aided indexing.