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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 the ...

is a listing of

Website A website (also written as a web site) is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, educatio ...

s organized in a

hierarchy A hierarchy (from Ancient Greek, 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 ...

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

services.

General

* DOAJ.org – Directory of Open Access Journals * Curlie.org (formerly DMOZ, also known as Open Directory Project – the largest directory of the Web. Its

open content Free content, libre content, libre information, or free information is any kind of creative work, such as a work of art, a book, a software, software program, or any other creative Media (communication), content for which there are very minimal ...

has been mirrored at many sites. The original DMOZ went offline in March 2017, but continued since August 2018 as Curlie. * Jasmine Directory - 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Sources Source may refer to: Research * Historical document * Historical source * Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence * Source (journalism), a person,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 ...

– Web portal for journalists, freelance writers, editors, authors, and researchers; in addition to a search engine it includes a subject-based directory. * World Wide Web Virtual Library (VLIB) – Was the first directory of the Web, and operated from 1991–2005.

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. This differs from more t ...

search engine. * Yell – is a digital marketing and online directory business in the United Kingdom

Niche

* Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web – international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. *

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 La ...

– 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. * Timway – web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong.

Defunct directories

* AboutUs.org – directory from 2005 to 2013. * Anime Web Turnpike – 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 – directory of

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

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

Internet Public Library The Virtual 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 information ...

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

– 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. * Yahoo! Directory– 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 – volunteer-built Web directory; it was introduced in 1999, acquired by LookSmart in 2000, and shut down in 2006. * ProgrammableWeb – resource on APIs that provides a directory of APIs. * Dalilmasr – Egyptian online directory

General

Business directories

Niche

Regional

Defunct directories

See also