&gt; I firmly believe the next &quot;search engine&quot; will be a curated directory of content and not automated. Then I can just leave out the spam sites and junk.<p>A curated directory cannot work at scale if one has to curate it for billion of users manually. Most people aren&#x27;t interested in curated search, Google kinda tried that already. What people want is the most accurate result given a query, which can only be done by an trained AI.