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Fighting Click-Bait

The Internet seems awash with ‘click-bait’ and sponsored content – articles created primarily to generate money, sometimes plagiarised, misleading, exaggerated, or provocative just to get views. The good stuff – articles often written simply because it’s good to share knowledge and ideas – is getting harder to find.

My proposal is to create a search engine that, rather than systematically crawl the web, starts with a seed corpus of high quality links, and fans out from there, stopping when the quality drops. The result will hopefully be a searchable index of pages that were created to impart information rather than to earn cash from eyeballs.

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