minus-squareRené Seindal@mastodon.socialtoDeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.ml•In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?linkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months ago@ajsadauskas @degoogle DMOZ was once an important part of the internet, but it too suffered from abuse and manipulation for traffic. For many DMOZ was the entry point to the web. Whatever you were looking for, you started there. Google changed that, first for the better, then for the worse. linkfedilink
minus-squareRené Seindal@mastodon.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.ml•My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.linkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months ago@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology It’ll go where Orkut went. linkfedilink
@ajsadauskas @degoogle DMOZ was once an important part of the internet, but it too suffered from abuse and manipulation for traffic.
For many DMOZ was the entry point to the web. Whatever you were looking for, you started there.
Google changed that, first for the better, then for the worse.