No, it was pretty much exactly the Yahoo directory, only they allowed the public to add sites...sort of. Someone would claim the editorship of some area and it was up to that person to decide what was allowed. There was no clear process, last I knew, to kick an editor out if he/she weren't doing their job and some editors seemed to have a very particular slant in certain categories, sometimes commercially or otherwise competitively motivated. (I don't want competitor websites added to this category I control). It stagnated.