With more than 4 billion addressable web pages and 2.7 million added daily, the Web can be a very confusing place. It s like trying to find a library book with all of the books on the floor. Fortunately, there is help out there. Search sites help make order out of this chaos. They are web sites that act as electronic card catalogs to help you find the information you want.
Directories are great for broad topics.
You will get well-organized results. A directory site does not work as well for narrow, targeted searches. These programs automatically sort many components of a site including key words, introductory paragraphs, hidden codes, graphics and more. The major ones index 100 times more web pages than Yahoo does. For example, if you are looking for web information regarding a person in the meetings industry, these are good sites to use.