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I don't think it's too late to fix this. We can build better search engines, or better yet, tools more suitable tools for discovery. It doesn't have to be big to be useful.<p>Right now the big problem as I see it is that there is great content being created but its audience just isn't finding it. There's so much noise, the signal is almost completely drowned out.<p>Out of largely the same frustration permeating the link, I built search.marginalia.nu alone in less than a single year in my spare time without prior knowledge of search, paying for the hardware out of my own pocket.<p>I don't say that to promote how great I am. The point is specifically that I'm just some guy on the Internet. Just imagine what could be possible if actual resources were put toward finding solutions to this problem.