Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoGoogle search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirelywww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down110
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minus-squareCyber Yuki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoNo, but we can build it. It’s called a Directory. This is how Yahoo! worked before it got enshittified and eventually replaced by Google search. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
minus-squareares35@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoeven netscape/mozilla was in on this game, with the open directory project (dmoz). aol eventually shut it down, but it apparently lives on independently as curlie.org - but i have no idea how current it is or anything.
No, but we can build it. It’s called a Directory. This is how Yahoo! worked before it got enshittified and eventually replaced by Google search.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory
even netscape/mozilla was in on this game, with the open directory project (dmoz). aol eventually shut it down, but it apparently lives on independently as curlie.org - but i have no idea how current it is or anything.