List of web directories

A web directory is a listing of websites organized in a hierarchy of categories.

• Answers.com - Provides a portal to more specialized "directories" (including Wikipedia) depending on the category of information.
• Best of the Web Directory - Lists content rich, well designed websites categorized both by topic and by region.
• Geniusfind - categorizes topic-specific search engines and databases.
• Gimpsy - A directory organized by activity.
• GoGuides - One of a couple of directories that supplanted Disney's Go.com directory after it closed.
• JoeAnt - A community of editors from the now-defunct Go.com volunteer edited directory.
• LookSmart - Operates several vertical directories.
• NZPages - Regional directory of local NZ websites.
• Open Directory Project (aka DMoz or ODP) - The largest directory of the web. Its open content is mirrored at many sites, including the Google Directory.
• Skaffe - Another directory formed by former Go.com editors.
• Starting Point Directory - A human edited general directory organizing sites by category.
• UK Pages - Regional links to local UK business websites via town or city.
• VFunk - Online directory that specializes in listing and categorizing global dance music & urban lifestyle listings.
• Wikidweb - A volunteer-edited, wiki-based directory that does not employ a fixed hierarchy of categories.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library (VLIB) - The oldest directory of the Web.
• Yahoo! Directory - Their directory was the first service Yahoo! offered.
• Zeal - Volunteer-built web directory, first appearing in 1999, and then acquired by LookSmart in October 2000. Looksmart shut down the Zeal website in 2006.

See also

• List of internet search engines

External links

• Internet searching: Directories at Curlie