[highlander]

Yahoo Directory has certainly been neglected and customers stopped using it in favor of search. However, I think there's still an opportunity for a directory 'done well'. Browsing hierarchically is a different mode of discovery. Customers approach it in a different way and that can help them to discover sites that they wouldn't otherwise find through search and news.

[troymc]

DMOZ is still around, but I think the best directories end up being the niche directories maintained by people who are really into something. Wikipedia also has some amazing lists.

[graycat]

> Customers approach it in a different way and that can help them to discover sites that they wouldn't otherwise find through search and news.

Very much so, and a directory can be focused start into a very different approach to the rest.

[acjohnson55]

There's still https://delicious.com/

[jqgatsby]

I strongly agree. Search works when you have some specific intent, and can articulate that intent to some degree. A directory helps you discover knowledge you didn't even know to ask about.

@highlander, ping me at john a fries

at gmail if you would like to discuss further.