[davidfstr]

> A better resource today would have to start with some radical choice such as whitelisting, if only to reduce the head-end costs of ingesting material.

> It's tempting to imagine some rules like: no ads, no popups of any kind, government mandated or not, especially no cookie banners, no paywall, but even sites like Wikipedia fail at those criteria today.

This sounds like the approach that the Marginalia (https://search.marginalia.nu/) search engine is taking. My understanding is that its algorithm favors text-heavy sites. And additions to its index are done via GitHub Pull Request so it's effectively using an approve-list (whitelist).

[PaulHoule]

I am impressed, it actually found both Yoshinons.