The Yahoo! Directory was a
web directory
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which at one time rivaled
DMOZ
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in size. The directory was
Yahoo!
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'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 crawler-based listings under
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo! Search is a search engine owned and operated by Yahoo!, using Microsoft Bing to power results.
Originally, "Yahoo! Search" referred to a Yahoo!-provided interface that sent Web search query, queries to a searchable index of pages supple ...
in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014. Users could browse thousands of listings which were organized in 7 or more tiers. For example, if a user was looking for a site on chess they might follow a path such as: recreation -> games -> board games -> chess.
The directory originally offered two options for suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard", which was free,
[How do I add my site to the Yahoo! Directory?]
Yahoo! website, October 16, 2009 (archived September 5, 2013) and a paid submission process which offered expedited review.
Yahoo! Directory Submit
Yahoo! website (archived July 4, 2014) "Standard" was dropped, and a non-refundable review fee of $299 ($600 for adult sites) was required when suggesting any website. If listed, the same amount was charged annually.
On September 26, 2014, Yahoo! announced that it would be closing the directory on December 31, 2014.["Progress Report: Continued Product Focus"]
Yahoo! Yodel, September 26, 2014 This followed the closing of a number of country-specific directories in 2010.["Yahoo! Closes European Directories, Says US Directory Is Safe"]
SearchEngineLand.com, June 17, 2010, accessed August 13, 2010
See also
*List of web directories {{Short description, None
A Web directory is a listing of Websites organized in a hierarchy or interconnected list of categories.
The following is a list of notable Web directory services.
General
* DOAJ.org – Directory of Open Access Journa ...
* List of defunct Yahoo! services
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