Ohh I remember Google Directory, good times. They closed it down for good in 2011. Dmoz was also closed, but it seems like there's a "new" Dmoz called Curlie [1], founded by some of the original team members. [1] https://curlie.org. - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

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 / 3 months ago

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 / 4 months ago

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 / 4 months ago

> 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 / 11 months ago

I deployed whoogle search at home. For laptops it is rather easy to define it as the default search for alfred and the respective browser, but for iOS devices I have not found a way (except some rather clunky and intrusive extensions) to change the default search engine beyond what Apple tells you. Is there a way to to this via pfSense or pihole? So whenever someone searches in the address bar in safari on iOS... Source: about 1 year ago

I host an instance of Whoogle Search that I use and never looked back. It's like someone brought Google back to the golden age. No (direct) tracking, no ads, complete control over the results. Source: about 1 year ago

You know what this community needs? Our own community whoogle server. Source: over 1 year ago

Whoogle for the win; https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search. Source: over 1 year ago

I use whoogle with still uses Google under the hood but strips any PII out of the requests, I also run mine on a publicly hosted server. Source: over 1 year ago