Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine

Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by cm2187 on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:03AM (#19171410)

For a long time I used yahoo. The nice thing with a directory is that if you found an interesting website you could look up similar websites in the same yahoo category. I think this functionality is just gone.

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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by brobdingnagians on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:08AM (#19171453)

Are there any sites with a "crowdsourced" directory? Might be interesting to have something like wiki-pedia that is a curated source, but curated by a larger group of volunteers. Although, I could see it getting corrupted by marketing purposes, but at the same time it might be able to be maintained cheaply by a foundation. Human intelligence providing grouped sites might be a useful asset, and there could be statistics/requirements for getting listed.

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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by vladd on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:13AM (#19171496)

You can check-out http://www.curlie.org/ , which is the successor of DMoz, the volunteer-powered now-defunct Directory of Mozilla project.

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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by classichasclass on Friday February 15, 2019 @10:09AM (#19171461)

There used to be dmoz.org, r.i.p. It doesn't seem to be working anymore, but it used to at least have an archive.

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Re:Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google se... by kirion25 on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:11PM (#19174761)

A mirror of the archive still exists: https://dmoztools.net/

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