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Subject Directories: Commercial Yahoo
is an example of a commercial subject directory. Subject directories
are collections of Web sites that people have selected and organized. |
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They
have arranged selected Web sites into subject categories and sub-categories.
Sometimes links are annotated so you'll know before clicking on it what a site contains. Many commercial subject directories, such as Yahoo, also have a search engine function. The quality of sites in a subject directory is usually good. |
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| Reproduced with permission of Yahoo! Inc. © 2000 by Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. |
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Best for browsing and topics that are broad or general.
You may have to click through categories and subcategories.
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