HACKER Q&A
📣 stockhorn

How to filter the noise, rate/endorse the web?


With the recent advances in Chat-GPT and the setbacks in search result quality (SEO over good content), the internet will become more and more difficult to navigate.

It will become increasingly difficult to differentiate between truthful content and generated but not entirely correct or even intentionally manipulative content. Even if I can laboriously check one or the other blog post for truthfulness, my grandmother certainly cannot.

Is there a system (browser plugin?) with which I can rate/endorse websites?

It would be practical if, as an expert in certain topics, I could rate entire domains or individual pages and, conversely, benefit from the ratings of others in areas in which I have no expertise. I'm thinking of a GPG-based (Web of Trust) system. Of course, one would have to ensure that only 1 rating can be submitted per user (phone number or Gov-id validation?).

Note: I assume there are search engines trying to solve this issue (which ones?), but I would like to see a system that works independently of how I access the web (via search engine or URL).


  👤 vmoore Accepted Answer ✓
Hackernews/Reddit is a sort of meta-commenting engine which adds a lot of context to articles on the web. If you're in doubt about a popular article, check the HN submission for it, and see what people are saying about it.

But I get what you're asking for. A sort of TrustPilot[0] but for the more general web.

[0] https://www.trustpilot.com/