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#curlie formerly #dmoz. Also hi to @Curlie
#degoogle #searchengine alternatives

Stumbled onto Curlie (https://curlie.org/), I'm surprised there isn't more visibility of this on masto given its non-commercial nature.

Its an open human curated website directory which built on what DMOZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) had and in some ways feel like a much more elegant (if partial) alternative to the sledgehammers that are indexing crawlers.

Looking forward to see if I can use this for relatively static items like reference materials and portals (library sites, etc). It won't be anywhere near complete for local shops and more ephemeral things like blogs.

Are there any other users here on masto who can comment on longterm Curlie usability?

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@betula/116523018350755107

Hace poco me preguntaba si habría un gestor de marcadores con federación y aquí tengo la respuesta. Ahora podría plantearme más seriamente hacer algo tipo dmoz.org.

#bookmarks #fediverso #marcadores #dmoz #dmoz.org #fediverse

Ruh Roh❕

When you break the #Google with a legitimate question but #Skynet's AI is too busy searching for #Sarah_Connor to notice that it's been 17 minutes and still hasn't timed out, lolz 🤘💀🤘

#tallship #AltaVista #Inktomi #DMOZ #Curly #AskJeeves #GNUhoo #Bing #GigaBlast #InfoSeek and other dead horses. You no can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔

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Re last boost. I remember there was a site called #DMOZ back in the day. I think like a lot of good ideas it was just before it’s time. Imagine a Wikipedia like version of that where it was a curated list of links sorted by category and sub category. With human editors to remove broken lists and weed out AI spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

@clayote @iacore Yah, #Yahoo! inspired “Gnuhoo,” then @fsf complained, so it was renamed NewHoo. Then Yahoo! chimed in, and while they were casting about for a new name, #Netscape acquired it and renamed it #DMOZ. #AOL acquired Netscape and eventually shut down DMOZ in 2017.

@researchfairy You just gave me a DMOZ Open Directory Project flashback...

Sadly we are not allowed to have or keep nice things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ

#DMOZ #ODP

@evan @BeAware What about the Open Directory Project - #Dmoz? Domains have been approved millions of times.

Bonjour les #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Queer francophones
En ce moment, je fais un focus sur les associations sur #Curlie (ex #DMOZ). Est-ce qu'il vous semble manquer une asso dans ce listing (y compris les catégories) ? https://curlie.org/fr/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9/Personnes/Gays%2C_lesbiennes%2C_bisexuels_et_transgenres/Associations/

Si oui, me le signaler à la suite de ce toot (ça visibilisera le ou les liens) et partagez au besoin pour toucher les LGBT de Masto qui ne suivent pas les hashtags précités.

I still remember when #DMOZ closed. What has replaced it, or does no such thing exist any more? (Specifically interested in free ones.)

https://searchengineland.com/dmoz-has-officially-closed-271530

@sebsauvage en tant qu'ancien éditeur #DMOZ (#curlie), je dois avouer qu'une IA aurait été la bienvenue pour trier le flot de liens merdiques proposés par les SEO sans vergogne. Et aussi pour proposer des notices qui respectent les guidelines.

@lauren "I'll share my bookmarks if you share yours."

I mean it isn't a complete archive of the internet, but there's enough mostly relevant stuff that it might be useful.

It seems we have a pathway out of this, #federated and shared.

With past history as a guide.

That doesn't mean resurrecting #dmoz or the #odp

But it doesn't not mean that either.

Does the #fediverse need (or have) a directory?

Asking a crawler or any automatized bot to recognize decolonized knowledge is something impossible.
I think we should temporarily go back to a good old web directory of decolonized content. Highlighting such a content to make it easier for it to spread.

#Dmoz #OpenDirectoryProject
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"Curlie is a Web directory, not a search engine. Although we offer a search query, the purpose of Curlie is to list and categorize web sites. We do not rank, promote or optimize sites for search engines. Curlie is simply a data provider. Its data users, such as Google, Yahoo, and AOL, install their own search functionality on their sites. Curlie has no influence or knowledge on how these search engines process search queries."

@andybaio

#search #dmoz #curlie

@andybaio
> Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans.

Thanks to your post, I went to see out if DMoz is still a thing, and found its successor:
https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html

#search #DMoz #Curlie

@andybaio Agreed. However: #Wikipedia is both a directory and a search engine. :)

"In many ways, Wikipedia has replaced #DMOZ as a source of reference information".
https://moz.com/blog/getting-a-link-from-dmoz-isnt-worth-what-it-once-was

(#Wikidata and other #Wikimedia projects also provide links to a gazillion niche websites, but it's harder for most people to search that information.)

2/ But how could a #SearchEngine meaningfully improve #socioeconomic #equity?

I believe the best #search is provided by machines plus #HumanAugmentation.

For a long time we had #directories, e.g. #yahoo, #dmoz/#odp, #WorldWideWebVirtualLibrary, #InternetPublicLibrary that provides human #curated search results...and these results where often of high quality but limited in scale.

As the #internet became more integral to human life the ability to maintain human-curated directories decreased.

Going through my giant box of stickers today and came across this classic. If you’re ancient on the web or in search, you know. #DMOZ

Did you know that DMOZ.org is now Curlie.org?

https://curlie.org/en

DMOZ was the internet directory from 1998. People use it to find websites before Google Search era and contribute website's URLs to it before Wikipedia era. It was discontinued and succeeded by Curlie in 2017.

Boost is very appreciated.

#DMOZ #Internet

#Netscape #Mozilla #dmoz #JWZ

I'm imagining the #fediverse being used as a sort of search engine, with a human-sorted index. Like a distributed #DMoz. For example, say users who recommend a novel in a post include the hashtag #goodnovel, and other hashtags for, maybe, author, genre etc. Then another user can search for novels to read across their social network, maybe with the ability to specify degrees of separation.