This is a simple and quick one. Google (or whoever else wants to jump on the opportunity) releases a simple add on to their toolbar that allows a user to QUICKLY rate ANY webpage, from 1 to 5 stars. This rating, and in turn the cumulative ratings of all the people using this system are sent back to the Search Engine in question, who then uses these peer ratings to influence and improve search results.
This is simply in response to 'false' results, or results of poor quality that still manage to show up at the top of search results pages. If enough people rate these poor web pages as 1 star, eventually they will fall out of favor, and conversely, the lesser known but more deserving web pages can rise to the top, BASED OFF OF CONTENT QUALITY.
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The problem with this is, my tastes may be different than the majority. I might like sites that most other people don't.
This rating should also show what kind of class the contents have. Professional( technical), commercial or general(informative). Based on the nature of the contents. So that you can straightaway click the site you think is good enough to provide you the information you desire.
One would save a lot of time.
It would be nice to have only relevant search results. But the problem of your idea is that it would be rather easy to write a robot (meaning a program/script) that could get some irrelevant pages to the top. This would open a new scope for spammers.
Because of the spam/robot problem, this would work only with registered known-valid users. How about if Google allows only its own employees to rate sites, as a first step. A second step would be to add employees of a dozen other large employers. A sample of a few hundred thousand users would give good enough guidance to be more helpful than the current unrated system.