Web directories - Development and Outlook

Development: Not until nearly the end of the last millennium were web directories important part of the World Wide Web. The editorial care specifically for users, providing them with the information. However, it often took a long time until new websites in the lists. Yahoo directory has long been the most widely used web catalogue. In 1998, the Open Directory Project (ODP) or DMOZ (Directory at Mozilla). This `open content project 'was an attempt, through voluntary international editors waiting times up to be included in the list as soon as possible. Today is DMOZ with well over 5 million entries one of the largest web catalogues in the world ...

Outlook: The importance of web directories and web catalogues has greatly diminished. The majority of Internet users seeking information or data with the help of search engines. Yahoo directory, the very foundation of the company, has been a long time hardly cared. Even the ODP had repeatedly intervening difficulties, especially technical nature

In their place are some commercial directories underfoot, the only one registration fee. Besides some new visitors to these directories often provide some strong backlinks, through which registered in the results pages of search engines increase. A really noticeable effect on the ranking of a Web page, the DMOZ and possibly the Yahoo directory. If a page e.g. At DMOZ entered, as `trustworthy ', and it listed above. In future, the importance of some web catalogues rise again, as many new search techniques, such as Trust the Google Rank, manually audited directories as a starting point for its other ratings used.