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You don't have to go all the way back into Yahoo-era when it comes to manually curated directories: DMOZ was actively maintained until quite recently, but ultim
by stakhanov 7y ago
You don't have to go all the way back into Yahoo-era when it comes to manually curated directories: DMOZ was actively maintained until quite recently, but ultimately given up for what seems like good reasons.
- gerbilly 7y agoEarlier than that there was a list of ftp sites giving a summary of what was available on each.
- iblaine 7y agoThis is true, and DMOZ was used heavily by Google's earlier search algorithms to rank sites within Google. Early moderators of DMOZ had god like powers to influence search results.