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A lot of the underpinnings of such a manually-curated knowledge base did exist in the early 2000s, in the form of Yahoo! Directory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Directory

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Yeah, that's actually related to what I'm thinking of. The idea is a crowd-sourced and well-executed iteration on the old Yahoo! directory.

https://blog.digraph.app/2020-06-13-democratization-of-searc...

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TIL -- thank you for sharing that!