Curlie Directory
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Curlie is the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Features
- Human editors
- Social media integration
Tags
- web-directory
Curlie Directory News & Activities
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directory added Curlie Directory as alternative to Top Services Directory
What is Curlie Directory?
Curlie is the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors. Historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP) and DMOZ, it was founded in the spirit of the Open Source movement, becoming the only major directory that is 100% free. In accordance with their free use license, there is no cost to submit a site to the directory or use the directory's data.
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- English
Comments and Reviews
This a great project to categorize all the internet is the continued of DMOZ (Directory Mozilla). It's free and all user can participate. But the main a problem is that is difficult to navigate because of its hierarchical organization in form of lists. And also the web is not very active and some categories are outdated.
Curlie Directory is a website that people can add links to the website, a google but very less infomation. Since the whole thing is edited by people, certain stuff that is common in google will not be found in Curlie. Undertale is one of them, I serch by author name Tony Fox, zero result and by game Undertale, zero results. This is not a serch engine but reather a website editor for anyone to add links. It can never be a serch engine like google, bing, yahoo or duckduckgo.
You are entirely correct, Curlie will never be 'a serch engine like google, bing, yahoo or duckduckgo'; the reason for this is because Curlie is simply not looking to become a search engine.
It would be interesting to learn where exactly you've picked up the idea that this human-edited directory is in fact a search engine and then you decided to write a review expressing disappointment that it is not a search engine.
Your review is really not helping anyone, I'm sorry to say, because it's off-topic.
it was place with google and other serch engine, that was the reason why it was bad review.
There are five alternatives listed. One of them is the old dmoz. None of them are Google, Bing, Yahoo, or DuckDuckGo.
If you know of something, like Undertale, which you enjoy, know about, or just would like to see listed you can suggest the sites to be listed (don't expect anything to be instantly or automatically listed - it is a human edited directory and we could use more humans). You can also apply to be an editor and start a category for Undertale (I think I have heard of it, if its a game) and list the sites which other people would be glad to find.
Curlie is glad to have more help with the directory. A directory runs on listings but a search engine runs on spiders that automatically and continually add links without sorting them, checking them, or really knowing what they are beyond the first page of the site.
If you read this (or someone else who is interested) please do at least suggest the sites you want to see listed. Thank you.
I've been a volunteer editor with Dmoz, now Curlie, from the early days. I never fail to find something interesting while working on the directory.
very limited, it doesnt even have google.com
There is an entire category for Google and has been for years.
No there was no google category at the time. Wayback machine and Archive.is has no record of such thing. ICANN WHOIS has the record of the web domain being less than 5 years old. The site never had Google site to start with until someone add it.
Editor notes show Google.com being listed since at least 2006. Wayback does not archive everything. The category has not always been exactly in the place it is now. Category names change categories are moved, are updated, etc. This category goes back to 2011, probably farther but I got tired of clicking next. Google.com has been listed for many, many, years.
Curlie.org is not as old as the original dmoz.org domain so of course it shows up as a newer domain.
Everything change, it took me a while to find google.com this site isn't user friendly. No one can find stuff easy and there is no log about when a page change. Everything in this site shows it is a new thing, no records of older stuff.
The records are for the editors and admins who work on the directory. Not public information. I had no trouble typing Google into the search on the front page of the site then clicking the category from the search results. Took me about 3 seconds including typing time.
As far as the length of time... this is a review of Curlie. Curlie took over from dmoz but Curlie itself (as a web domain and a directory) started in 2017. Before that it was The Open Directory Project at a different domain. This seems to be the cause of your confusion.
No one knows where anything goes, i had to guess how to get that infomation. Why was it ever a good idea to put google products first instead of google.com site on top. Also editing records shouldent be editors or adams, alternativeTo records can be seen by anyone.