Some thoughts: - If there are too many relevant websites to display on one page, search vs. manual directory does not really make a difference. - The curated

Some thoughts: - If there are too many relevant websites to display on one page, search vs. manual directory does not really make a difference. - The curated model was long kept up by DMOZ, which had an army of volunteer editors but eventually shut down. Some editors took over and built curlie.org, but there is no innovation since DMOZ (which itself had no innovation) - Curation is a big topic nowadays. Pinterest for example is based on that idea. However, things might be a bit more decentralised these days. I am just thinking about the awsome-* lists on GitHub. - Manual directories may fail build a "searchable" taxonomy. I am searching maybe for a technical support company specialised in that product, located in this city, offering low rates. This is an easy example, but there are tougher ones. General purpose information retrieval (like Google does) might be a better fit for such problems than prebuilt taxonomies. - Based on the last two points, curation might be more successful in small topics rather than in a Yahoo-like all-topics setting.