Someone should invent a search engine that allows for curated sources. For most things, I’d love to search among the top few thousand sites, and exclude everything else.

While I was typing up and fleshing out an idea on curated source lists for search engines, your post beat me to the punch.

As others have said, a curated internet is very old timey, and kind of limited, but I think what I fleshed out could work well with the modern internet, and be interesting. Maybe a major search engine might actually take up the task if user demand is there.

Quality of search results from google have been downward tending for years, and maybe it will boost the quality of results again (albeit with their ads still stuck in the results).