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Re:RIP DMOZ: The Open Directory Project Is Closing by bhartzer on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:36PM (#13759370)
What’s sad here is that we’re now in an era where AI and other computers are now categorizing and approving websites. It’s no longer a volunteer-editor driven web world. Now, only a search engine algorithm decides whether or not a site is trusted. It used to be that a human approved a site, and a search engine trusted that human's opinion. No longer.
Re:RIP DMOZ: The Open Directory Project Is Closing by Viper007Bond on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @08:36PM (#13760161)
Personally I think it's a good thing. No opinions involved and everyone is treated equally.
Re:RIP DMOZ: The Open Directory Project Is Closing by a235 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @07:59PM (#13759950)
Also sad from the AI perspective, this was a great, public human-labeled dataset.