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As part of an ongoing effort to streamline and focus its business, Yahoo today announced ( http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/98474044364/progress-report-continued-product-focus ) that it was retiring its namesake product at the end of the year.
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University, created a hierarchical directory of websites, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In March of that year, they gave it the name "Yahoo!," for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle."
In the early days of the Web, these categorized, human-curated Web listings were all the rage. Search engines existed, but rapidly became notorious for their poor result quality. On a Web that was substantially smaller than the one we enjoy today, directories were a useful alternative way of finding sites of interest.
(Score: 2) by toygeek on Saturday September 27 2014, @07:25PM
it looks like http://www.dmoz.org/ [dmoz.org] is surviving fine. Haven't used it in forever though. Google is just too quick and accurate (with a well phrased search).
There is no Sig. Okay, maybe a short one. http://miscdotgeek.com
(Score: 2) by toygeek on Saturday September 27 2014, @07:28PM
Looks like I may have spoken too soon. The newest Windows category is "XP"...
There is no Sig. Okay, maybe a short one. http://miscdotgeek.com
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Sunday September 28 2014, @02:29AM
I used DMOZ just last week. I'd miss it, as a much less cluttered place when it comes to finding certain stuff.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.