Curlie Directory VS MillionShort

Curlie Directory Reviews

MillionShort Reviews

Curlie Directory mentions (8)

• A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful

  Some places where you could search for personal blogs https://nownownow.com/ https://ooh.directory/ https://searchmysite.net/ https://curlie.org/ https://nekoweb.org/ https://blogs.hn/ https://wiby.me/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Sure, It Won an Oscar. But Is It Criterion?: The Criterion Collection

  A start on something like this might already exist. Curlie [1] is a hand-built directory or table of contents to the web, something like the the old DMOZ Open Directory Project [2]. 1. https://curlie.org/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Kagi Smallweb [a directory of small/personal websites]

  I've started making a list of "small web" sites https://wiby.me/surprise/ https://ooh.directory/random/ https://ooh.directory/ https://curlie.org/ and now this one too! - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking

  > It was pre-social-media and pre-wiki, so none of these directories were optimized to take advantage of crowdsourcing. False. Google Directory (and many other major name, mostly now defunct, web directories) used DMOZ which was, in fact, crowdsourced (and kind of still is, though the current name is Curlie [0] and while some parts of the website show updated as recently as today, enough fairly core links are dead... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Ooh.directory

  You'll love Curlie which was created by a number of DMOZ alumni https://curlie.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

MillionShort mentions (38)

• 'You have blood on your hands', US senator tells Zuckerberg [video]

  Sometimes I still use https://millionshort.com/ for filtering out those crap tier sites; web site search engine still means finding useful webpages - I hope the AI search engines do recognize that as a target to list actual useful sites vs the 1-summary-to-rule-them-all. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Looks like millionshort is back

  After getting a 503 from every search for months, it would appear https://millionshort.com is back online and going to a paid model. If you get the same experience as I, you'll be offered a login/register page when attempting a search. I've found it to be a very helpful resource and am glad there's life there. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

  Kagi search is brilliant in this aspect. There used to be a similar service [0] not too long ago that blocked many spam sites from the search results. [0] http://millionshort.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Cory Doctorow: Platform Capitalism and the Curse of “Enshittification” [audio]

  Https://millionshort.com/ Then there's neocities, weird subreddits, 4chan, niche forums still running on phpBB discussing all kinds of stuff. You seem to expect that niche communities should've scaled with the rest of the internet. Like, back then, there were a few million people online. Now it's billions, but the few millions still online in their niches aren't interesting enough for you. Why? - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask App Not to Track, cause why would it want to?

  Https://wiby.me/ - sites with "classic" (late 90s, early 00s) design Https://search.marginalia.nu/ - text-heavy sites, avoids modern javascript/css/animation heavy design Https://crowdview.ai/ - forums and discussion sites Https://consensus.app/search/ - privileges scientific research (requires an account) Https://feedle.world/ - blogs and podcasts Https://metaphor.systems/ - less common... Source: 11 months ago