Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
The problem with search is that not only is Google getting worse, but I've also mostly outgrown it, in that it isn't sophisticated to answer pretty much any scientific question I would want to ask.- No way to search for a scientific question and get a summary of the current scientific consensus or viewpoints on specific issues- It's really hard to access academic journal articles online.- Even when you can access journal articles, it's hard to know which ones to look in to answer your question. Sometimes it's hard to even know which field(s) your question falls under.- Even if you vaguely know which field your question falls under, you don't necessarily know any of the vocabulary used by that field.- No way to search by dependent and independent variables, confounding variables, etc.- No way to sort articles by the quality of their methodology, the quality of the journal they were published in, the quality of the researchers, etc.I know this isn't a product that more than 1% of the population would use, but if someone built it then maybe there are other things it could be used for.