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Curlie

Who runs Curlie, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web directory alternatives.

Who’s behind it: Not stated
Online since: Unknown
Trackers
Prices: No pricing page
Last price change: –
Closest alternative: Wikibooks

Measured from Curlie’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Curlie

Curlie curlie.org

Curlie directory - Collector of URLs

Wikidata: human-edited directory of the Web

Company: No imprint we could read
Online since: Not in the Internet Archive

02 · Privacy

What Curlie tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 17 alternatives below has fewer; 3 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →

Cookie banner: None found

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Curlie’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Curlie

No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan

None of the 60 sites closest to Curlie match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Curlie adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 6 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,214
Vector: 384-d
Query: 56 ms

Built with

JavaScript libraries: jQuery asset https://curlie.org/js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js
CSS & UI: Font Awesome asset https://curlie.org/css/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css
Web servers: Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.69 (Unix)
Languages & backends: Java cookie JSESSIONID
DNS hosting: Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1477.awsdns-56.org
SaaS tools (verified in DNS): Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=2F8D1J2E9CKjPoiEVvqbAa0xX8phFmyFa2inKkwpGBU

What competitors use

Across the 20 closest sites.