Since the dawn of google you found stuff on the web by searching with keywords.
Yahoo did this organized thing where they grouped the internet into categories. The internet was much smaller then.
Altavista did… I don’t remember what altavista did, but it didn’t work as well as google.
But google does us all one big disservice. It presents links to websites with ads.
Wouldn’t it be neat if there was a search engine that did the same thing google did, but would only show you sites with no ads. Or maybe at least no ads that popped up at you distracting you from the content you were trying to read.
So how hard would that be? Make a webpage with a search box, that hits google’s servers to do the search (probably against some terms of use of theirs) and then filtered out results based on a blacklist of sites with annoying ads.
Where to get that information? Well, the helpful user, of course.
Each link could be presented in an iframe with a little bar at the top with a button that says “click this if you see an ad” I suppose you could automate it by doing whatever adblocker does to block ads, you can just use to detect them, and if you do, flag the page as annoying and it will never show up in search responses again.
Just an idea.
What’s the business model you ask? I don’t really care. I just find being jarred away from reading something by an annoying popup ad… well… annoying.
The search engine could also simply crawl the sites it indexes and look for elements that are in adblocker databases.