How about building your own platform?
Your post is a clear indicator that there is a space left in the market for services that deliver your model, without all the marketing bullshit and bigdata hype. How about a google with a proper query interface (not just +,-,")? How about a social platform for organising parties, without farmville and like this and like that? How about a platform where i can buy whole seasons of game of thrones for download or stream as soon they get released? Or how a bout a twitter for 30 seconds voice messages, that cost you a dollar for every extra minute? There is lots of money to earn. Sure i might be stupid for sharing these ideas, but id rather have them become reality instead of suffering from this dumbing down of the internet to become the TV 2.0. Yes i am paranoid, and i think i have right to be, as a member of a political party that once had the goal to preserve the beneficial part of the internet, which has now become just another political party with most of its delegates being the usual representatives of the 48 laws of power.
I have been greatly attracted to the idea of creating a better search engine. But people aren't generally searching for websites anymore, they're searching for content. There is a certain need for the service provided by google/ddg; and I'd be looking to provide more of an internet yellow pages so that you don't always have google funneling you back to a handful of large sites.
It's hard to commit to a project like that, but I do think the idea (and your others), have merit.
