Originally Posted by Equinox

Which SE will beat Google? None. First of all, google is years ahead in infrastructure to handle the immense load from billions of daily searches. And despite their flaws they do have algos that manage to index billions of pages and compute their relevancies somewhat well. Once they find out how to sperate real content from bullshit, Google will be golden.

What I believe will gain popularity are Wikis. Tons of information is being compiled by real users, moderated by real users, which keeps the spam to a minimum and provides great and helpful information. There's that manual review process you all want, it lies within the community.