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by fnfontana 1304 days ago
I think that search engines like Google are unbeatable to find content that we already know about. On the other hand, those lists are great to discover what we don't already know about, such as new topics, etc. Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.
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> Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.

My thought exactly, and also why I don't just search 'latest news' on Google every morning. Human curation is a thing. (not sure how much human curation goes into ooh.directory, but I'm pretty sure they don't use Google's ranking algorithms to surface links)

Hi, it's my site. I find the links by exploring*, and I add and categorise them manually.

* or "surfing the net", if you're old enough.

doing god’s work
> Just like the awesome lists on GitHub.

What are these lists you're talking about? Could you give an example?

Here is an awesome list of awesome lists on various topics: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#contents