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> Ironically, the thing I would appreciate most is a manually curated, Wikipedia inspired, hierarchical directory. Yahoo?
by ci5er 7y ago
> Ironically, the thing I would appreciate most is a manually curated, Wikipedia inspired, hierarchical directory.
Yahoo?
- riffraff 7y agoMore like the now defunct DMOZ, I'd say.
- Hoasi 7y ago> More like the now defunct DMOZ DMOZ was a good idea, but the execution was biased because curated lists invite partiality. You might build something better only if you could mitigate this natural tendency.
- mch82 7y agoFun fact... This is how search engines started. One of the first steps in early SEO was to get your site listed on a manually curated web directory. VLIB, the first web directory, still operates at http://vlib.org/ http://vlib.org/. List of Web Directories, Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_directories
- ci5er 7y agoUh, yeah. Jerry Yang when he was a VLSI student at Stanford, and I was a lowly semiconductor designer at Motorola Japan used to talk about these things, so ... yeah: I was being sardonic. EDIT: He used to say to me: "[WhateverMyNameIs]! Nobody is going to pay a penny per newspaper article or a nickel for a song!". And I'd say: "Jerry! Nobody is going to pay to advertise on your personal curated bookmark list!". Turns out that one of us was right. And it wasn't me.
- fwip 7y agoLooks like VLIB is rotting though - the first link I clicked (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) seems to belong to a domain squatter now.