Reminds me of the web back in the 90’s, before Google.
Check out wiby.me. It's a whole search engine for these kinds of sites
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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Damn, that's interesting!
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yo dawg
This seems like a really cool project. The results returned by the conventional search engines are so bad now because of the usual enshittification and also because the internet has become so clogged with AI-generated SEOed garbage. These human-curated directories may have some advantages again. Thanks for sharing.
I found it while reading the OpenLDAP Admin manual. It’s actually a fairly interesting read.
What’s the format, I don’t quite get it.
A semi-curated website directory sorted by language, topic, subtopic. I haven’t seen anything like it for a long time.
Excite and Yahoo both had directories like it back in the day, when boolean was needed for productive web search, and natural language web searches were not yet a thing.
If I remember correctly, Yahoo started exactly like this - curated communities and subsets made of links with perhaps a couple of sentences about each site. I think I might have had a handful of communities back then.
I think it’s an interesting for a bespoke community where people are experts on a set of areas and create essentially catalogs. It can’t compete at scale, of course.
But no - support