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senko on July 27, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: What went wrong for Yahoo

A human-curated directory of the good parts of internet would be worth it's servers weight in gold today.

Combine with modern perplexity-style answer engine and it would be far away from "also ran".

Yahoo! had 99 problems, but human curation wasn't one.

jillesvangurp on July 27, 2025 [–]

And I'm sure if Yahoo was still around, they'd be trying that. And failing again.

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