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A return to visiting websites directly rather than searching seems to have been forced upon us. Would it be useful to build a wiki for web resources so people can find and bookmark websites by topic? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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For example (just as rough proof of concept)

Research articles: Pretty much any academic library website for published stuff, arxiv.org for white papers in computer science and math, pubmed for biosciences

audio equipment: gearspace.com

Encyclopedia: Wikipedia

Thesaurus: Wordhippo.com

The idea is to avoid needing to visit a search engine. Might be a high idea.

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[–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Directory is exactly the word I should have used! Are there existing directories that already do this?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Evidently.

    This is what Yahoo was, in the 90s. Search didn't really exist yet. They made an honest effort to link, describe, and categorize every site on the internet, and for a while it seemed like they were on top of it.

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