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Ask HN: Can you browse the web via taxonomy?

2 points·duncanphillips··4 comments

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?

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/).

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.

Yahoo.

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

Did you mean Yahoo!?

Or gopher?

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