Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy?

Posted by duncanphillips on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:09AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to categorize sites or domains into a taxonomy and allow for browsing (and searching) within a well defined structure?

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Re:Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy? by johncoltrane on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:20AM (#32189792)

Well, that's actually how we used to do it back in the days. See DMOZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) which is now apparently reborn as Curlie (https://curlie.org/en/Science/).

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Re:Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy? by duncanphillips on Friday July 22, 2022 @04:40AM (#32189902)

interesting, found a couple more - https://www.jasminedirectory.com/ - http://www.stpt.com/directory/ - http://vlib.org/

seems like it never really took off, too hard to maintain i guess.

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Re:Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy? by bigiain on Friday July 22, 2022 @03:28AM (#32189482)

Yahoo.

(Yes, I'm showing my age here, I know...)

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Re:Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy? by brudgers on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:56AM (#32191893)

Did you mean Yahoo!?

Or gopher?

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