Alexa is a free plug-in that puts your browser on steroids. It works with your browser to provide you with a wide range of information about the sites you visit. Traffic is ranked in terms of Top 100, Top 1000, Top 10,000, etc., most visited sites. Direct Search is maintained by librarian Gary Price of George Washington University. ODP relies on a vast army of volunteer editors.
People sign up as editors of topics they know something about and then review sites in that area.
It is a self-regulating community where editors contributions are rated by other users in forum discussions. An automated link checker scrubs expired links off the directory. ODP has become an important source for Yahoo and other major search engines, so it is important to have your site listed here. It's meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources. Go to 100 Hot.