It has thousands of volunteers and is one of the largest subject directories on the web with about 1 million web pages indexed. It is being used by many search engines to enhance their sites, including AltaVista, HotBot and Lycos. LookSmart An annotated subject directory with about 1 million indexed pages. LookSmart uses paid editors to review and place indexed web pages. The oldest directory on the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee.
Quality varies with the individual maintainer.
Each guide is maintained by its own expert. Meta Search Engines Ask Jeeves Allows a user to ask a question in plain English which is then checked against its database of already answered questions. The service also runs the question through several other Internet research tools such as Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Infoseek and WebCrawler. Allows the results to be sorted by relevance, site or source. After searching multiple search engines Inference Find merges the results, removes redundancies, and clusters the results.