Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by zozbot234 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:46PM
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That's the problem that web directories solve. It's not that you're wrong, it's just largely orthogonal to the problem that you'd need a large crawl of the internets for, i.e. spotting sites about X niche that you wouldn't find even from other directly-related sites, and that are too obscure, new, etc. to be linked in any web directory.
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by reaperducer on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:05PM
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That's the problem that web directories solve
Not really. A web directory is a directory of web sites. I can't search a web directory for content within the web sites, which is what a niche search engine would do.
On the other hand, the niche search engine depends upon having such a web directory (the list of sites to index).