List of web directories
Encyclopedia
A Web directory
is a listing of Web sites
organized in a hierarchy
or interconnected list
of categories.
The following is a list of Web directory services for which Wikipedia has articles.
Web directory
A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links....
is a listing of Web sites
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
organized in a hierarchy
Tree (data structure)
In computer science, a tree is a widely-used data structure that emulates a hierarchical tree structure with a set of linked nodes.Mathematically, it is an ordered directed tree, more specifically an arborescence: an acyclic connected graph where each node has zero or more children nodes and at...
or interconnected list
Graph (data structure)
In computer science, a graph is an abstract data structure that is meant to implement the graph and hypergraph concepts from mathematics.A graph data structure consists of a finite set of ordered pairs, called edges or arcs, of certain entities called nodes or vertices...
of categories.
The following is a list of Web directory services for which Wikipedia has articles.
General
- AboutUs.orgAboutUs.orgAboutUs.org is a wiki Internet domain directory. It lists websites along with information about their content. As a wiki, AboutUs allows Internet users to add entries or modify information....
– a wikiWikiA wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. Examples include...
-based Web directory. - AnsearchAnsearchAnsearch is an Australia based-internet company. Their main product is a search engine. The search engine Ansearch.com.au was launched in early December 2004.-Key Distinguishing Features:...
– Web search and directories focusing on the United States, UK, Australia and New Zealand. - Best of the Web DirectoryBest of the Web DirectoryBest of the Web Directory is a commercial web directory providing websites categorized topically and regionally. Headquartered in Jericho, New York, BOTW also maintains offices in Orange, Texas, Rocklin, California, Studio City, California and Highland Beach, Florida.Founded in 1994 at the...
– Lists content-rich, well-designed Websites categorized both by topic and by region. This is a paid for service. - JoeAntJoeAntJoeAnt is a human edited directory offering "to provide a directory of quality sites for Internet users".Created by a group of a dozen former Go.com volunteer Go Guides, JoeAnt was born of the desire to provide relevant results in a wide variety of topics, and seeks to work by forming a...
– A community of editors from the now-defunct Go.com volunteer-edited directory. - Open Directory ProjectOpen Directory ProjectThe Open Directory Project , also known as Dmoz , is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links. It is owned by Netscape but it is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.ODP uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings...
(a.k.a. ODP or dmoz) – The largest directory of the Web. Its open contentOpen contentOpen content or OpenContent is a neologism coined by David Wiley in 1998 which describes a creative work that others can copy or modify. The term evokes open source, which is a related concept in software....
is mirroredMirror (computing)In computing, a mirror is an exact copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site.Mirror sites are most commonly used to provide multiple sources of the same information, and are of particular value as a way of providing reliable access to large downloads...
at many sites, including the Google Directory until July 20, 2011. - Starting Point DirectoryStarting Point DirectoryStarting Point Directory is a human edited general web directory that provides websites organized by topic.It was founded in 1995 by an early Internet pioneer Frank Addante as a search engine and a directory. The Starting Point Directory was unusual in 1995 in that sites that were listed in the...
– A human-edited general directory organizing sites by category. - World Wide Web Virtual LibraryWorld Wide Web Virtual LibraryThe World Wide Web Virtual Library was the first index of content on the World Wide Web and still operates as a directory of e-texts and information sources on the web. It was started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the World Wide Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva...
(VLIB) – The oldest directory of the Web. - Yahoo! DirectoryYahoo! DirectoryThe Yahoo! Directory is a web directory that rivals the Open Directory Project in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering. When Yahoo! changed to crawler-based listings for its main results in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated in...
– The first service that Yahoo!Yahoo!Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
offered.
Specialist
- BiographiconBiographiconThe Biographicon was a wiki-based website containing biographies of famous and non-famous people, that existed from March to August 2008. The site also showed connections between individuals covered, and explained the circumstances under which they met....
– a directory of biographicalBiographyA biography is a detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts , biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events...
entries - Business.comBusiness.comBusiness.com is a business search engine and web directory and pay per click advertising network. It includes Work.com, a business-to-business community publishing platform where experts share advice on common business topics in the form of how-to guides....
– Business directory that charges a fee for review and operates as a Pay per clickPay per clickPay per click is an Internet advertising model used to direct traffic to websites, where advertisers pay the publisher when the ad is clicked. With search engines, advertisers typically bid on keyword phrases relevant to their target market...
search engine.
Defunct directories
- LookSmartLookSmartLookSmart is an online advertising company based in San Francisco. LookSmart provides search advertising products and services to text advertisers, as well as targeted pay-per-click search and contextual advertising via its Search Advertising Network...
– Operated several vertical directories from 1995 to 2006. - Lycos' TOP 5% – From 1995 until 2000 it aimed to list the Web's top 5% of Websites.
- ZealZeal (web)Zeal was a volunteer-built web directory, first appearing in 1999, and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000 for $20 million. Zeal combined the work of Looksmart's paid editors with that of volunteers who profiled websites and placed them in a hierarchy of subcategories...
– Volunteer-built Web directory. It was introduced in 1999, acquired by LookSmart in 2000, and shut down in 2006.