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They spend a lot of money on sub-projects that hardly go anywhere. They could cancel a bunch of those to put that money and effort into Archive instead. Maybe even a neutral, high-impact version of what Yahoo Directories used to do. Focus on all the stuff people might need or want to know curated into a collection with the Archive references on top of the Archive sponsorship.


That would be quite a circle, given that Wikipedia was inspired by GNUhoo / NewHoo / ODP, which was the first crowd-sourced Internet thing.

The Internet Archive uses blekko's slashtag data, which is a commercial effort founded by the ODP team -- blekko, now owned by IBM Watson.




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