I tried that, but I try to search in wide world, sometimes about topics that I don't even understand. So I don't know where to look. And many of my searches are like that (examples: how merchant fees work, how QC affects stock prices, effects of vitamin D3, how price parity is determined, how to focus on something boring)
All these are varied terms and most of search results will be like that, so I wonder if moderated directories would ever serve that.
I hear you. But arguably, imagine you could search a "collection" after you drilled down into your category.
Top -> Finance -> Credit Card -> Merchant Fees + Search
Top -> Finance -> Stock Market -> Algorithms + Search
Top -> Health -> Vitamins + Search
And of course, the Wikipedia is a good jumping off point for all of that information. But imagine a wikipedia-like place that then allowed you to find the top level information that you're looking for with additional search capabilities in its supporting collection.
Maybe the start of this is taking a Wikipedia article on Price Parity and then enumerating the referenced articles in the footnotes and putting a search engine over those perhaps.
I don't know. But there's got to be something better than what we have right now. I feel another leap of search innovation happening soon.
You'll have to think for yourself a bit. Which platform and country are the merchant fees about? Do you want the official source and legal text, a professionals opinion from a magazine or newspaper, or a blog post by someone detailing what they experienced?
A good search engine can and should ask you about this and present you with your choices. Or, of course, they can choose what to show you to optimise for something, be it response time, resource consumption or ad profit.
