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Search Engines

Meta-Search Engines

 

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INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

Directories


Directories are hierarchical catalogs of Web sites that are compiled by researchers.

An example is Yahoo.  URL: http://www.yahoo.com
It lists thousands of Web pages and contains 14 top-level categories as well as related subtopics.  It is a  general interest directory

Other examples are:

Galaxy      http://www.galaxy.com

Net Center      http://www.netcenter.com

Point Communications     http://www.pointcom.com/


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