The organization of categories on IndexOS is especially well suited to the sort of aimed browsing used by the previous two kinds of users. Web Pathways technology makes sure that the order in which a user visits sub-categories is largely irrelevant to the final result. On other Web directories, looking in the Web main category and then the Page Editors subcategory may lead to not finding the HTML editor that the user was looking for if the maintainers of the directory had decided that HTML editors belonged in the Programming main category. The Web Pathways classification engine guarantees that listings for HTML editors will be found under both the Web and the Programming main categories. The Web Pathways navigation engine provides site recommendations based on similarities in user behavior that can be very useful for aimed browsing.
Human behavior can capture similarities in documents that elude the abilities of machines.
The Web Pathways navigation engine can recommend sites that are related to the user's actual purpose. Most document navigational aids are limited to recommending documents whose content is similar to particular words or phrases that the user chooses to describe his purpose. The pursuit of this style of browsing is furthur enhanced by Web Pathways technology, which can recommend Web sites based on the detection of behavioral patterns that a user may be unaware of. The main draw of browsing users is likely to be the targeted news and discussion. These highly targeted articles are also placed on more general news pages, so users can make a very specific choice of the types of news and discussion they would like to see.