Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday September 27, 2014 @01:38PM from the 27-people-are-going-to-be-very-upset-to-hear-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes You may or may not remember this, but before the advent of reliable search engines, web listings used to be a popular way to organize the web. Yahoo had one of the more popular hierarchical website directories around. On Friday, as part of its on-going streamlining process, Yahoo announced that their 20-year-old web directory will be no more: "While we are still committed to connecting users with the information they're passionate about, our business has evolved and at the end of 2014 (December 31), we will retire the Yahoo Directory."

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Nostalgic about oil lamps? by arielCo · 2014-09-27 13:56 · Score: 4, Informative

Seriously, no hand-edited directory has been able to keep pace with WWW content for... ten years now? fifteen?
For those who don't mind the lag: DMOZ - the Open Directory Project.

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Re:Webmail by xushi · 2014-09-27 21:24 · Score: 4, Informative

Seriously.. It's called the Enter/Return key. Read up about it..