| Search
-- Web Directories |
| Yahoo
-- the web's most popular web directory and has a well-deserved reputation
for helping people find information easily; the largest human-compiled guide
to the web, employing about 150 editors in an effort to categorize the web;
over 1 million sites listed |
| Snap
-- a human-compiled directory of web sites; it aims to challenge Yahoo |
| LookSmart
-- a human-compiled directory of web sites; provides directory results to
MSN Search, Excite and many other partners |
| Open
Directory -- the fastest growing directory, uses volunteer
editors to catalog the web; formerly known as NewHoo; Lycos and AOL Search
also make heavy use of Open Directory data, while AltaVista and HotBot prominently
feature Open Directory categories within their results pages |
| Lycos -- started
out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the
web; in April 1999, it shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo; its
main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results
come from either Direct Hit or Lycos' own spidering of the web |
| Aeiwi -- a huge
directory of internet-related products and services; features also not internet-associated
categories |
| MyBegin
-- another web directory with possibility of creating own customized startpage |
| Top Web Sites Links
-- lists many good websites |
| Connect Online
-- another web directory |
