Comment by tiborsaas
4 years ago
In this age of "infinite" content curation is really important. Inspired by the 90's MTV experience I've built https://humanmusic.tv/ to replicate that but with indie music from the last 10 years.
I'm also running a web crawler to discover fresh music videos from various music blogs.
I wonder if a curated directory like the original 90s Yahoo! could work and experience a renaissance today? I could see that being more useful than search, honestly. Search today is just polluted with SEO trash.
Define "work." A curated directory for some niche topic would definitely be of interest to people involved with that niche topic. And, depending on the topic, it might even serve as a decently profitable sideline for someone. But it certainly wouldn't be Yahoo! v. 2.
Ironically, for SEO purposes, to generate backlinks, there are endless directory websites out there which look like what you just described.
To make it successful, some kind of authority should be present in the sauce.