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Both search engines and web directories allows you to search for websites but results may vary because of the different configuration of their databases.
Search engines are using crawlers / bots to read the content of websites and saving them in their database. Web directories are more organized because the websites are already categorized when submitted by humans.
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What is the difference between a crawler and directory search engine?
A crawler is the bot that crawls a site to rank it and or submit it into a search engine. A directory search engine is a website that has websites listed on it and allows you to search for what you are looking for inside of the directory.
When did Yahoo Directory Search Became a real Search Engine?
Yahoo became a proper search engine in 2004 A.D.
Which search engine or directories provides the search result for yohoo?
Yahoo Directory
What is search is the engine web's oldest directory launched in 1994?
Best of the Web directory http://botw.org
Explain prefer search engine on the internet?
which do you prefer to use when you want to get information from the internet,search engine or wed directory?
What is difference between search engine and subject directory?
A search engine is a database of websites. Each search engine has a dedicated spider that regularly crawls the net. Search results are displayed according to the keywords entered by Internet users. A directory is catalogue of websites classified by categories. Unlike search engines, submitted websites are reviewed by a human editor.
How do you search for directories in PHP?
You can check if a directory exists using the file_exists() function. file_exists(\'http://www.example.com/path/to/directory/\'); It returns boolean TRUE if the directory exists; boolean FALSE otherwise. Incorporting this function with a searching algorithym will make a successful directory search engine. Alternatively, you can make the engine very simple, and check if the exact directory name exists.
The Google search engine contains a directory and an advanced keyword search form List three other search engines that have advanced keyword search forms?
ummm, what?
How do you publish webpage to search engine?
By create the xml-sitemap for that particular domain & submitted into search engines. For particular web pages we can do submit it into the Particular search engine directory. By the use of webmaster submitted in it.
How fast can a search engine index a post from answers?
You can indexing your website as fast as possible in search engine with the help of directory submission.But WordPress sites get indexed in less than.
What is a Web directory?
Basically web directory is a site where we can submit and fetch link on the basis of their categories.Is a strong medium of making backward links. usually ppl got confused in search engine and in web directory.both is different.There is no similarity between them.For Example-:http://www.google.com is a search engine and http://www.linksgallery.info is a web directory.
How do you get your blog on Google when it does not appear in any search results?
If you want to index you website then submit some directory and get back link on search engine.
