Ask HN: Complete and Great Directory of Websites?

This question stems from wanting to have an "internet business directory" categorized by things like what they sell, and attributes about them (e.g.: buy from a specific country, stocks products of certain attributes, etc.)

But actually I would love to browse a comprehensive (maintained) directory that tags/categorizes all websites. It should leave out true spam/empty sites, but the rest can stay in. I assume some kind of attributes about popularity and size, too.

It could be organized with hierarchical categories somewhat like the Dewey Decimal system, or its open-license equivalent.

This sort of used to exist with DMOZ [0] and Yahoo Directory [1].

I actually think human curation would be a big part of this, by necessity. It is okay if it takes time and lots of effort, and is slightly laggy when new things pop up. People could submit change requests to be queued.

I am NOT looking for a search engine, LLM, or Wikipedia.

It DOES look like Curlie tried/tries this but is kind of inactive?

I AM looking for essentially a modern DMOZ or Yahoo Directory, but actually really good, up to date for today's websites.

It even seems potentially highly compatible with ads (not saying it should be commercial, but that seems the only way to sustain a project).

What say you? Does not exist? Or exists? Would you use this too? Is it time for such a project again (back to basics)?

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_Directory
  [2] https://curlie.org