hakia: semantic search (you mean experts' opinions count?)

Yes, yes, it's been in all the news, I know.  But I still don't know how I feel about hakia, the new search engine designed to "unlock the credible and free resources on the Web for all users."  This semantic search technology gives higher ranking to those resources recommended by professional groups with different areas of expertise.  To get an idea of what search results look like, here are the results for a search on "Marfan Syndrome."  Note the top few and the little pop-up info on the right when you hover over the results.

The company invited librarians to suggest URLs that we "as information experts, believe lead to the most credible websites for any given topic."  To me this is really Librarians' Internet Index turned into a search engine.  I'm curious to see how the market takes to this, beyond librarians and teachers.  If the regular-old-person won't use it, it won't make it.  You can read more details on the hakia site if you're interested in learning more.