For example (just as rough proof of concept)
Research articles: Pretty much any academic library website for published stuff, arxiv.org for white papers in computer science and math, pubmed for biosciences
audio equipment: gearspace.com
Encyclopedia: Wikipedia
Thesaurus: Wordhippo.com
The idea is to avoid needing to visit a search engine. Might be a high idea.
Evidently.
This is what Yahoo was, in the 90s. Search didn’t really exist yet. They made an honest effort to link, describe, and categorize every site on the internet, and for a while it seemed like they were on top of it.
That makes sense as a precursor to indexing! I might sign up to help with curlie.org as it seems to be exactly what I’m imagining. Thanks for pointing me.