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The Open Directory is also known as “The Mozilla
Directory” which is where its URL www.dmoz.org
(directory Mozilla) comes from and the .org designation showing
its non-commercial base.
It is one of the largest human-powered search directories today.
Formerly known as GnuHoo, it was launched in June 1998 and was acquired
by AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape in November 1998. Netscape also owns
the open source Mozilla browser, hence the tie-in. Netscape made a commitment
that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open
license arrangement.
While you can search at the Open Directory site itself, this is not recommended
as all you’ll get are results indexed in its database from its editors,
albeit thousands of them. Without a secondary source of results from a crawler-based
engine, relevancy suffers.
That’s not to say Open Directory isn’t valuable and the best way
to maximize that value is by accessing Open Directory through Google’s version,
the Google Directory. Google’s enhanced relevancy algorithms
and better link analysis improve the search results as does its PageRank
order, which lists the most popular sites based on analyzing links from across
the web first.
Here’s a quick look at the top Internet search engines:
| Search Engines
- Google
- All
The Web
- Yahoo!
- MSN
Search
- AOL
Search
- Ask
Jeeves
- Teoma
- HotBot
- Lycos
- AltaVista
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- Netscape
Search
- WiseNut
- Open
Directory
- Inktomi
- Looksmart
Additional Search Engine Resources
- Other
search engines
- Web
Site Directories
- Search
Engine Lists
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