mydigimedia by Amy L. Webb

Here's an interesting bit of nostalgia: MasterMOZ.com just launched a directory (Dmoz-style) allowing users to list their own sites. It's being billed as a "social search engine," but so far I don't see how it harnesses social media sites to enable better searching.

To be honest, if folks are listing their own sites with hand-crafted tags, it seems like it'll eventually be harder to find what you might be looking for. We all know that users will tag their websites with the most popular keywords rather than the most relevant ones.

Still, I have to wonder why anyone would willingly use a directory. There's just too much content, and I don't have that kind of patience...

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