Heh I was recently searching and comparing protein powders and other supplements and it reminded me of something I read

Back in the Yahoo days (which was just before my time) my understanding was that a lot of the internet and links and such were based around a categorization scheme.

Google came through and disrupted that whole business by building Really Effective Search

But now, search is Harder. There's so much junk in terms of content and products that it's hard to really find what you're looking for, and do reasonable comparisons in an effective way.

You see new search engines popping up that focus hard on link provenance

Or the spreadsheets various subreddits build out to compare products (/r/ebikes is an example that comes to mind), disk check or even this site itself is another example

Kinda results in me feeling like a move back towards curated lists collaboratively contributed to alongside some contributor reputation scheme to mitigate bots might be Useful

Or at least some shift back towards directories in some sense.

At least, a site that aggregates all these lists would be quite nice