Nowadays, when using the Internet, a robot-type search engine can solve most of the questions, and I think that there are few opportunities to use a directory-type search engine.
But,
- If you don’t even know the keyword to look up in the first place
- If you want to find out about a certain field
We recommend using a web directory for such purposes.
How to use the web directory conveniently?
Web directories are useful in the above cases. Even if you don’t know what you want to know, you can easily find the information by narrowing down by category.
Specific examples of useful web directories
Unfortunately, it’s rarely available now, but Yahoo!’S Yahoo! category, Google’s DMOZ, and more.
There were web directories such as MSN and BIGLOBE.