Good to hear your concerns.

> The real problem with search engines is
the fact that so many websites have hacked
SEO that there is no meritocracy left.

I intend to announce the alpha test of my
search engine here on HN.

My search engine is immune to all SEO
efforts.

> I can possibly not find anything deep
enough about any topic by searching on
Google anymore.

In simple terms my search engine gives
users content with the meaning they want
and in particular stands to be very good,
by far the best, at delivering content
with "deep" meaning.

> I need something better.

Coming up.

> However, it will be interesting to
figure the heuristics to deliver better
quality search results today.

Uh, sorry, it's not fair to say that my
search engine is based on "heuristics".

I'm betting on my search engine being
successful and would have no confidence in
heuristics.

Instead of heuristics I took some new
approaches:

(1) I get some crucial, powerful new data.

(2) I manipulate the data to get the
desired results, i.e., the meaning.

(3) The search engine likely has by far
the best protections of user privacy.
E.g., search results are the same for any
two users doing the same query at
essentially the same time and, thus, in
particular, independent of any user
history.

(4) The search engine is fully intended to
be safe for work, families, and children.

For those data manipulations, I regarded
the challenge as a math problem and took a
math approach complete with theorems and
proofs.

The theorems and proofs are from some
advanced, not widely known, pure math with
some original applied math I derived.
Basically the manipulations are as
specified in math theorems with proofs.

> A new breakthrough heuristic today will
look something totally different, just as
meritocratic and possibly resistant to
gaming.

My search engine is "something totally
different".

My search engine is my startup. I'm a
sole, solo founder and have done all the
work. In particular I designed and wrote
the code: It's 100,000 lines of typing
using Microsoft's .NET.

The typing was without an IDE (integrated
development environment) and, instead, was
just into my favorite general purpose text
editor KEdit.

It's my first Web site: I got a good
start on Microsoft's .NET and ASP.NET (for
the Web pages) from

Jim Buyens, Web Database Development,
Step by Step, .NET Edition, ISBN
0-7356-1637-X, Microsoft Press.

The code seems to run as intended. The
code is not supposed to be just a "minimum
viable product" but is intended for first
production to peak usage of about 100
users a second; after that I'll have to do
some extensions for more capacity. I
wrote no prototype code. The code needs
no refactoring and has no technical
debt.

While users won't be aware of anything
mathematical, I regard the effort as a
math project. The crucial part is the
core math that lets me give the results.
I believe that that math will be difficult
to duplicate or equal. After the math and
the code for the math, the rest has been
routine.

Ah, venture capital and YC were not
interested in it! So I'm like the story
"The Little Red Hen" that found a grain of
wheat, couldn't get any help, then alone
grew that grain into a successful bakery.
But I'm able to fund the work just from my
checkbook.

The project does seem to respond to your
concerns. I hope you and others like it.

How should I announce the alpha test here
at HN?