u/Available_Witness808

I’m working on an idea for a new search product called CLYCITE. The core idea is simple: instead of giving users a list of links or a black-box AI answer, it would give a direct answer with visible citations, confidence levels, and source quality ratings.

The problem I’m trying to solve is that search today feels broken in a few ways:

• SEO often pushes the most optimized pages, not the most useful ones.
• AI search can sound confident while being wrong.
• Ads make results harder to trust.
• General search does not work equally well for every type of query.
• Non-English users are still underserved.

The direction I’m exploring is:

• citation-first answers.
• transparent confidence / uncertainty.
• source quality scoring.
• multilingual support.
• possibly agent-like research features for deeper tasks.

I’m not here to sell anything I’m trying to find out whether this is a real problem and what would make this genuinely useful.
Would you actually use a product like this? What would make you trust it, and what would make you ignore it?