Who needs more Cludr?
How do you deal with all the clutter on the Internet? A new Web site that launched on Thursday purports to help you separate the wheat from the chaff with a directory of popular sites for various search categories, but there doesn't seem to be much to it.
The site, which sports the cutesy name of Cludr, features a Google search box and a list of 18 categories including "dating," "health," "investments," "music," "news," "shopping," "search" and "Yellow Pages." Behind the links are lists of the most popular Web sites in each of the categories.
Cludr is a new Web directory.
(Credit: Cludr)A company spokesman called Cludr a Web directory. But it's a far cry from traditional directories such as Yahoo Directory, which offers a lot more than just lists of sites, or even the very comprehensive Open Directory Project.
To me it seems like a very simple but organized list of bookmarks. Surprisingly in this user-generated content mad environment, it has none of the social media elements of popular bookmark sites like Delicious and StumbleUpon.
The site is powered by Google search and features Google ads, but with fewer ads and no video, news, image or video links.
A company news release quoted a happy customer who said, "Nothing gets in your way."
Yeah, definitely not the features.
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service, and the Associated Press. E-mail Elinor. 
I guess the simplicity is good for people that aren't internet savvy but you can net the same (if not better) results just by typing those categories directly into Google search and finding a nice list of popular sites for those topics. The difference is the information will always be up to date and instead of 20 results, you have 2,000,000.
Am I missing something here?