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+title: "We are entering a new era of web search"
+date: "2023-11-29"
+author: ["Daoud Clarke"]
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+We recently launched the new version of [https://mwmbl.org](Mwmbl)
+which includes the long-awaited feature of allowing users to curate
+search results. This is an experiment, since we don't know:
+
+ - Will people want to curate search results?
+ - How will we determine what is an objectively good search ranking?
+ - How will we deal with and prevent spam?
+ - How will we build and manage the community?
+ - Can we use curated search results as training for
+   [learning to rank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank)?
+ - Will this be better than the heuristics used by the big search engines?
+
+and probably a lot more important things I haven't thought of. But
+this is why it is exciting! If we knew everything already, it would be
+boring.
+
+Early indications are that at least a small proportion of people are
+happy to give curation a go, and we're already seeing a bit of
+self-promotion, which is fine, for now. We'll deal with it if and when
+it becomes a problem.
+
+If this experiment works, it will be a watershed moment for web
+search. Search rankings will be in the hands of the community and not
+the big companies. And that is our
+[mission](https://book.mwmbl.org/#mission).