The claim to fame of Yahoo! was, we hire people to look -- originally, not anymore -- we hire people to look at websites and tell you -- if they're in the index, they're good. This, on the other hand, is what 60,000 passionate volunteers produce in the Open Directory Project, each one willing to spend an hour or two on something they really care about, to say, this is good. So, this is the Open Directory Project, with 60,000 volunteers,
雅虎当年雇佣员工编制网络索引，从而一炮而红，当然，现在已不再这样做了 雅虎说“我们雇佣员工查阅网页，然后告诉你” “如果一个网站在我们的网络索引里，那么它就是优秀的” 而屏幕上显示的，则是六万多名热情的网友所做的“开放索引工程” 每一位参与者花上一两个小时在他所关注的领域里 整理出有价值的网站，这就是“开放索引工程”