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This reminds of the World Wide Web circa 1993. Yahoo was a kind of categorized link directory.

• newzisforsukas 2y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo...
  • gofreddygo 2y ago
    I never really used anything pre-google so I dont have enough context. The yahoo directory page, i found, is very useful for discovery. I spent a good amount of time digging into sub-directories of recent interest for example [0] and found the limited number of links very very refreshing and of high quality. Links work, no ads, and i skipped what i did not think useful without fatigue. 10 mins later, i learned something new. Google search for the same topic lends 2 screen fulls of ads and a popup asking for permission for my location and then this[1] garbage. 10 mins later, I had just spent time avoiding ads and paid content slop. A very basic example of why "google it" isn't a great tool for discoverability any more. Simpler tools, better outcomes. A modern looking, but fundamentally same concept of a categorized, curated directory could very well be an improvement over the current state of affairs. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141122222807/https://dir.yahoo.com/education/theory_and_methods/homeschooling/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141122222807/https://dir.yahoo... [1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=homeschooling https://www.google.com/search?q=homeschooling
  • nativeit 2y ago
    Many thanks for this other cheek. I had no idea they maintained that until 2014!
• beardyw 2y ago
  Yes, exactly what I thought.