Web Directories: The effective way of searching online

As WWW (World Wide Web) is growing every day, internet has become an integral part of our day to day life. With the increase in the awareness about internet, more and more websites are coming every day, which caters different needs and provide different solutions. As this database is growing rapidly, there comes the requirement of effective sorting and categorizing. It’s the same case where we used to have telephone directories looking for a specific phone number. Web directories are such websites, which provides a well-managed, properly sorted way of searching for specific website through proper linking. Web directories are also referred as link directories.

So how different is a web directory from a search engine? While a search engine provides a list of web pages; based on specific keyword, a web directory (link directory) displays the list of websites according to the categories or sub-categories.  Usually a web directory is a generic one, listing or displaying websites according to the categories and sub-categories based on regions, languages, etc.

Web directory is kind of a catalogue, where a user can check for or look for a specific category, search website which provides solutions for specific needs and requirements. There are numbers of categories, one can think of. Few of the categories are:

• Arts
• Business
• Computers
• Entertainment
• Food
• Fashion
• Health
• Marketing
• Media
• Research
• Shopping
• Travel etc.

This list can go endless, as each category can also be divided into further sub-categories.

Web directories not only make it easy for a user to skim through the enormous data available, but also avoid the clutter on World Wide Web. There are many web directories available for a user to go through; some famous ones are ODP (Open Directory Project) and Yahoo! (Yahoo Directory). But many other web directories are making their mark on the internet, with their excellent category and sub category bifurcations. One such name is www.dirindia.org. It provides an unlimited list of categories, so precisely defined and further segregated into subcategories; that it makes it easier for any user to search for the specific product or service, without wasting his/her valuable time going through the unnecessary information. dirindia.org also provide something called, Indian web directory, where a business or a user can provide submission of their website under specific category, submitting your website to web directories surely helps in targeting specific customers for your business.