There are more and more useful spaces on the Web these days. However, we can’t rely on Google to target everything for us, especially since it’s crawl rate is good but not great. However, if we want a better chance at finding useful information, it would be helpful if sites had readily apparent ratings/feedback that would help you find that resource. One of the best examples of this is called The Digg Effect, where tech savvy surfers post and rate URLs. This provides much more useful information for a searcher than the PageRank system that mostly depends on page/site hits and links from other sites (although the 2nd one probably correlates with quality, it’s not bulletproof). Anyhow, if this was done for more kinds of sites, that would provide a good tool for people interested in other topics than technology (Digg does more than technology but that is it’s strongest area).
