Quality Search Engine

OK so apparently search engines are a hot topic right now what with the Cuil flop and talks about searching different via different media than text.

Well I want a quality-based search engine. Hear me out. Google works on page rankings through link-backs, 'relevance' and page popularity...basically.

But when I'm searching for advice about my Mac for example, I have to visit 10 different pages to get a good answer about how to free up space or make it run better. Sure, the pages brought back are popular but when did that become synonymous with quality? Moreover, with rankings working like this, popularity is just self-perpetuating. So if you can optimize and use SEO properly, work your meta tags, etc. on a subject early enough, it could be yours to rule right?

There's plenty of page/story rating services from Digg to Reddit, etc. but not for web pages as they correspond to what you search for. So for example, if I search 'mac cool' I (and a bunch of other people) might get pages about how Apple has a cool culture around it, etc. and then click on at least the first page to get a better sense for what these results have returned. This just makes this type of page rise in popularity for a topic none of us care about with these search words. Instead, I would vote down such a page and click/vote up pages that tell me how to make my Mac stop heating up and turning out its ridiculously loud fan.

I don't know. Maybe this is already being done or has been dismissed. Maybe there's issues with fraud/manipulation. I don't have much experience with building or any real understanding of how the technology behind search engines work, so please, enlighten me.