what's the difference between a regular search and the online directory?
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An online directory is something that Yahoo first came up with, where you click on link after link to get to what you are looking for. Regular search such as a google search, you type in the text into a search box and hope for a website that uses those keywords.
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A a cross between a pure search engine and a directory to give results is a Hybrid Search Engine Directory. Example - Exactseek.com
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If you are discussing a online 411 directory, many small and even meduim size business don't have a web presence, they follow other methods of advertizing.  \n\nfor real life directories they charge a fee to be listed and often do not produce enough results for the cost.
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The most common search engine type is the Crawler-Based Search Engines.\n\nCrawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They "crawl" or "spider" the web, then people search through what they have found.\n\nIf you change your web pages, crawler-based search engines eventually find these changes, and that can affect how you are listed. Page titles, body copy and other elements all play a role.\n\nThere are differences in the ways various search engines work, but they all perform three basic tasks:\n\n    * They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words.\n    * They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them.\n    * They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index. \n\nEarly search engines held an index of a few hundred thousand pages and documents, and received maybe one or two thousand inquiries each day. Today, a top search engine will index hundreds of millions of pages, and respond to tens of millions of queries per day.
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Directories are human edited lists of Internet resources, arranged hierarchically. Directories are meant to be browsed, but they can also be searched. \n\nExamples of well known directories are the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) http://dmoz.org/ and Google's directory http://www.google.com/dirhp\n\nGoogle's directory is unusual in that it is not human edited but that is because it is a copy of DMOZ.\n\nSearch engines spider the web (following links) and visit every website they can find. They then rank them for whatever keywords you search on, hoping to provide the most relevant at the top (first). The ranking process uses a proprietary algorithm which is why the search results are different for each search engine.\n\nHope that helps.
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It depends on the search engine and it depends on the directory.\n\nA search engine will try to present you with the most relevant pages for the keywords you enter.  Unfortunately they don't always succeed.  Search engines will generally return you a greater variety of results.\n\nA good directory on the other hand won't try to return results from the entire internet.  It should instead be trying to get you the best results from the sites that it has in it.  And to get into the directory the site will normally have been reviewed by a human to make sure that it is what it says it is.\n\nSo when I'm searching if I just need any resource on a particular keyword then I'll be in a search engine.  If I'm looking for good sites in a particular category I'll probably be looking for it in a directory.\n\nThe key differences:\nSearch engines are automated and can be fooled.  Directories should be hand-edited and are hard to fool.  Search engines generally examine and return pages.  Directories look at sites.  Search engines can update within hours for new content.  Directories typically take days or months.  Search engines are usually simpler to use as you don't need to understand a directory structure.  Search engines are typically larger, directories tend to produce higher quality results, but have much reduced coverage.
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Do we look like directory assistance?\nb
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A reference library told me that not all websites appear on all search engines or in the same order. I can't tell you why, except it helps to sometimes use more than one search engine.
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No, it's the same search engine, wherever you are.
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You're going to a directory, not a page.\nEvidently, there are no default pages set up for that \nparticular directory.
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yahoo profiles or yahoo member directory
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we have many online dictonaries just type the one you are looking for on any search engine
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Please see the link I provided. It is a help webpage to walk you through searching the web.  There are several things that can help you be more successful at finding what you are looking for.
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this depends on what you serach for. sometimes yahoo gives better results than jeeves, sometimes its the other way around. the advantage sith jeeves is that it cumulates the information from other search engines and spits it out as a unified result.. a best of all worlds, one would say.
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Hey MISSY!!!!!!!!!!\n\nI can see you are quite ILLETERATE.........\n\nYahoo! and Google are two different things!!!!\n\nWhat I am trying to say is that it might look as if they are same (as they do the same function i.e. search the WWW) but the differences are as follows\n\n1) Yahoo and Google have different Organizing Bodies!\n\n2) Yahoo's Database differs from Googles database.......\n\n3) Yahoo Provides different other services else than search and so does Google
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The term "invisible web" mainly refers to the vast repository of information that search engines and directories don't have direct access to, like databases. Unlike pages on the visible Web (that is, the Web that you can access from search engines and directories), information in databases is generally inaccessible to the software spiders and crawlers that create search engine indexes.
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It's a search that looks in the files on your computer, including saved web pages, word processing files, spread sheets, etc. rather than searching on the internet.