A web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web that specializes in hyperlink to other web sites and category those links. Web directories often allow site owners to submit their site for inclusion. Human editors review submissions for fitness.

An alternative portal to the web is using search engines, web sites that index other sites based on keywords.

Famous web directories are Yahoo!, LookSmart, and the Open Directory Project. ODP is an important player in the directory market, perhaps because of its open content approach to editorial review and its use by Google. Zeal (web), also open to contributions from volunteers, is the non-commercial side of LookSmart s directory, and its material is reused on various sites.

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