Finding Dulcinea - The Librarian Of The Internet?
With the mission to untangle the Web, freeing it of clutter and spotlighting only the sites that matter, finding Dulcinea aims to provide a richer experience for every Internet user.
Online searches may give you millions of search results in under a second, but you’re left to sift through them yourself, which is where Finding Dulcinea (taglined “the Librarian of the Internet”) hopes to fit in. The team claims to have spent more than 40,000 hours scouring the Internet for the best resources on thousands of topics. They then distill their research ending up with Web sites that are clear, informative, and enlightening.
The site is divided into 3 sections
- Web Guides that detail a number of topics.
- Beyond the Headlines which puts news stories in context, supplying links to historical, local, academic and other perspectives.
- Netcetera features content on innovative people, diverse places and bold ideas.
Unlike Wikipedia, the content on the site is entirely managed and written by the team, which links to sites it finds useful. The website’s target is largely folks (824 million) who use the Web but are not familiar with social-networking sites. In particular, it focuses on the older demographic that is still learning to navigate the Web
While the idea seems good, it is debatable how scalable it is given that it is a manual process.
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