Interesting, I haven’t heard about this before! It’s obvious that site owners will lied about want the site is about to get more attetion. But in this case, the databse is community-driven, which means if there will be a lie, other users (or bots) can detect it, and edit it.

The database will be always incomplete, like the wikipedia. Also, why store all the websites? Lot of them are deep web or Domain Parking. And inaccurate? Yes. Wikipedia is inaccuarate too. When somebody see a mistake, it probably fix it. That’s how it works. It works well.

Hey guys, some of you compared my idea with web directories (Curlie, DMOZ, Yahoo…). But that’s not exactly the same. They was storing website just by topic of the website. In database, there should much more information about the website than just: “it’s chess one”. Let me explain it on library example:

Web directory: Library where you say which genre you want and they show you a list of books with this genre.

General search engines: Library where you say for which types of books you want, and they recomend you a few contating what you wanted, but sorted based on your own preferences and how much the authors paid them.

Database: Library where you say what books you want, and can contain any other things you wantm Like when the book was published, by who, topic of the book etc. Combining all these together

Hey guys, many of you (@[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected]) compared my idea with web directories (Curlie, DMOZ, Yahoo…). But that’s not exactly the same. They was storing website just by topic of the website. In database, there should much more information about the website than just: “it’s chess one”. Let me explain it on library example:

Web directory: Library where you say which genre you want and they show you a list of books with this genre.

General search engines: Library where you say for which types of books you want, and they recomend you a few contating what you wanted, but sorted based on your own preferences and how much the authors paid them.

Database: Library where you say what books you want, and can contain any other things you wantm Like when the book was published, by who, topic of the book etc. Combining all these together.

The whole database should be free and open-source, like the wikidata. Not a bad way to make money to found it, would be making search engine that would use that database.

Making the database community-managed is probably the only way how to achive some huge as it. Making it monetize in any way will probably discouraged the users from contributing (same thing that happend to Wikitravel.

And curlie, yes. But it just directory. I don’t want to build a directory, I want to build a databse not containg just the websites, but also detailed informations about them.

What do you think about this whole? I would like to hear your thoughs!