In part, by boring results I mean I instantly recognize the top results, and I know exactly what will be in them, and I know which ones will actually contain potentially interesting new stuff, i.e. _I didn't have to search for these, I'd go their directly_. Then next results are all obscure, and I've already visited them, and/or I know they are historical and not something I have to revisit.
With this engine with at least 1/2 the links (to be fair there were < 20) I didn't recognize the URL at all, and it was clear in the text or the URL that there was an interesting bit to check out (i.e. what Google should have also returned after they barfed out the things I don't need to know about), but had never succinctly done in my experience.
I suppose the magic in this engine would have to be alerting the searcher that they found more of this type of link, as once I visited the 10 or so sites they would fall back into the "been there, done that" link category that Google appends somewhere after the ads and "big" sites, mixed in with a million search term spam sites, etc.
With this engine with at least 1/2 the links (to be fair there were < 20) I didn't recognize the URL at all, and it was clear in the text or the URL that there was an interesting bit to check out (i.e. what Google should have also returned after they barfed out the things I don't need to know about), but had never succinctly done in my experience.
I suppose the magic in this engine would have to be alerting the searcher that they found more of this type of link, as once I visited the 10 or so sites they would fall back into the "been there, done that" link category that Google appends somewhere after the ads and "big" sites, mixed in with a million search term spam sites, etc.