Web directory A web directory or link directory is an online list or catalog of websites. That is, it is a directory on the World Wide Web of (all or part of) the World Wide Web. Historically, directories typically listed entries on people or businesses, and th ...

is a listing of

Website A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Examples of notable websites are Google Search, Google, Facebook, Amaz ...

s organized in a

hierarchy A hierarchy (from Greek: , from , 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another. Hierarchy is an important ...

or interconnected list of categories. The following is a list of notable

services.

General

* DOAJ.org – Directory of Open Access Journals *

DMOZ DMOZ (from ''directory.mozilla.org'', an earlier domain name, stylized in lowercase in its logo) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory ...

(also known as Open Directory Project) – was at one point the largest directory of the Web. Its open content was mirrored at many sites. Offline since March 2017. Continued since August 2018 as Curlie.org. *

Jasmine Directory Jasmine Directory is a human-edited web directory providing websites and businesses categorized topically and regionally. It offers thirteen topic-based categories and one region-based category with hand-picked and reviewed users' suggested resour ...

- Lists websites by topic and by region, specializing in business websites. *

Sources Source may refer to: Research * Historical document * Historical source * Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence * Source (journalism), a person, publication, publishing institute o ...

– general subject web portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors and researchers; in addition to a search engine it includes a subject-based directory. * Starting Point Directory – Founded in 1995, relaunched in 2006, charges a fee. *

World Wide Web Virtual Library The World Wide Web Virtual Library (WWW VL) 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. Overview The Virtual Library was started by Tim Berners-Lee creato ...

(VLIB) – oldest directory of the Web.

Business directories

* Business.com – Integrated directory of knowledge resources and companies, that charges a fee for listing review and operates as a

pay per click Pay-per-click (PPC) is an internet advertising model used to drive traffic to websites, in which an advertiser pays a publisher (typically a search engine, website owner, or a network of websites) when the ad is clicked. Pay-per-click is usually ...

search engine. *

Yell A yell is a loud vocalization; see screaming. Yell may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Yell, Shetland, one of the North Isles of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland * Yell Sound, Shetland, Scotland United States * Yell, Tennessee, an unin ...

– is a digital marketing and online directory business in the United Kingdom

Niche

* Business.com – Integrated directory of knowledge resources and companies, that charges a fee for listing review and operates as a

search engine. *

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web is an international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Overview Two categories of online exhibitions are included in the database: exhibitions crea ...

– international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. *

ProgrammableWeb ProgrammableWeb is an information and news source about the Web as a programmable platform. It is a subsidiary of MuleSoft and has offices in San Francisco, CA. The website publishes a repository of web APIs, mashups, and applications, and has doc ...

– resource on APIs that provides a directory of APIs. *

Virtual Library museums pages The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world. History The VLmp online directory resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Labo ...

– directory of museum websites around the world.

Regional

* 2345.com – Chinese web directory founded in 2005. The website is the second most used web directory in China. * Alleba – Filipino search engine website, with directory. * Dalilmasr – Egyptian online directory * Timway – web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong. *

Bailaho Bailaho is a brand for a German-language business directory for the business-to-business sector. Trademark owner is the company Bailaho GmbH based in Baden-Baden in Germany. The brand has been on the market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland ...

– business directory serving Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Defunct directories

* AboutUs.org – directory from 2005 to 2013. *

Anime Web Turnpike Anime Web Turnpike (also known as Anipike) was a web directory founded in August 1995 by Jay Fubler Harvey. It served as a large database of links to various anime and manga websites. With well over 40,000 links, it had one of the largest organized ...

– was a web directory founded in August 1995 by Jay Fubler Harvey. It served as a large database of links to various anime and manga websites. *

Biographicon The 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 ...

– directory of

biographical A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or ...

entries. *

Google Directory The Google Directory was a web directory hosted by Google. It was discontinued on July 20, 2011. However, the Google business places and recommended businesses is now commonly referred to as the Google directory. Information The Google Directory ...

– copy of DMOZ directory, with sites listed in PageRank order within each category. Closed in July 2011. *

Internet Public Library The Internet Public Library (IPL, ipl2) was a non-profit, largely student-run website managed by a consortium, headed by Drexel University. Visitors could ask reference questions, and volunteer librarians and graduate students in library and info ...

– librarian-edited directory, product of a merger with the Librarians' Internet Index (LII) in 2010. Closed in June 2015. *

Intute Intute was a free Web service aimed at students, teachers, and researchers in UK further education and higher education. Intute provided access to online resources, via a large database of resources. Each resource was reviewed by an academic spec ...

– directory of websites for study and research. Maintenance stopped in July 2011, archives remain available. *

LookSmart LookSmart is an American search advertising, content management, online media, and technology company. It provides search, machine learning and chatbot technologies as well as pay-per-click and contextual advertising services. LookSmart also li ...

– operated several vertical directories from 1995 to 2006. *

Lycos' TOP 5% Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University. Lycos also encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertainment websites. The company is based in Waltha ...

– from 1995 until 2000 it aimed to list the Web's top 5% of Websites. *

Yahoo! Directory The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo! changed its main results to c ...

– first service that Yahoo! offered. Closed in December 2014. * Yahoo! Kids – oldest online search directory for children, until its discontinuation as of April 30, 2013. *

Zeal Zeal may refer to: * Zealotry, fanaticism ** Zeal of the convert * Diligence, the theological virtue opposite to acedia * Zeal (horse), race horse * Zeal (surname) * Zeal (web), an internet directory * Zeal Monachorum, a village in Devon * South ...

– volunteer-built Web directory; it was introduced in 1999, acquired by LookSmart in 2000, and shut down in 2006.

External links

* {{dmoz, Computers/Internet/Searching/Directories, Internet Directories

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