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Yahoo in the mid to late 90s. I've wondered if there might not be a renewed niche for a curated site directory, preferably as a non profit and with no comments.

• ksec 7y ago
  >I miss the web then in general. It was full of basically honest information rich stuff. Completely Agree. People use to share honest information, no conflict of interest, and doing so purely because of passion. Now that got me thinking. Did the introduction of Web Ads in large, generating vast amount of profits leading to SEO, page spam, content farm and generally lower quality of information? So in good intention, we hope the web to have a sustainable ad business model, has actually lead to the fall on quality of the web? Or would the web still have been like today even if we had no ads. I am not sure if this is true, but this could be another example of good intention leads to bad outcome.
• whoopdedo 7y ago
  Dmoz[1] was supposed to be that. Sadly it withered on the vine as well. The thing a directory does well that search doesn't is being able to eliminate the things you don't want to find. Let's say I want to find information about operating a whatchamacallit. While I can ask Google it may tell me that, but I'm also going to see a lot of information by people trying to sell me a whatchamacallit. In a directory I can find the category that covers the information domain I'm interested in then search only within that subtree for what I want to find. [1] currently archived at https://www.dmoz-odp.org/ https://www.dmoz-odp.org/