DMOZ was great in the 90s (I was there.. and I remember using DMOZ and I appreciated it at the time). Search engines werent that great, and there werent that ma

DMOZ was great in the 90s (I was there.. and I remember using DMOZ and I appreciated it at the time). Search engines werent that great, and there werent that many websites.. 250k in mid-90s, and a few million at the end of the 90s. That's few enough that a group of people could review each one, and add it to a directory. But now there are perhaps 250 million active websites[0]. Is it possible for a small group to review all of these? And if it is, how many are directory worthy? I would guess there are enough high quality websites to overwhelm a directory... My question is, with the amount of high quality content out there.. is a directory the way to find it today? And what about the near future.. how would a directory keep up with the rapid growth of the web? The obvious answer here is to simply leave out websites.. which is exactly what DMOZ did.. it's been very difficult to impossible to get your website on DMOZ for many years.. but IMO, this is exactly what lead to the irrelevance of DMOZ, since it forced users to go elsewhere to find the content they wanted. IDK.. I really like the idea.. but part of me also thinks the time for a directory has passed. (edit: at least in the form of dmoz.. maybe you can create a dmoz 2.0 that addresses some of those challenges though.) 0. http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/ (this says 1B websites, but 75% are inactive)