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 <title>Directories and Human Guides || Fagan Finder</title>
 <dateModified>Mon, 26 Jan 2004</dateModified>
 <ownerName>Michael Fagan</ownerName>
 <ownerEmail>mfagan@gmail.com</ownerEmail>
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<outline type="rss" text="Changes to &#8216;Directories and Human Guides&#8217;" description="This page describes the changes and updates to the &#8216;Directories and Human Guides&#8217; page on Fagan Finder." url="http://www.faganfinder.com/dir/changes/" xmlUrl="http://www.faganfinder.com/dir/changes/?display=rss" />

<outline text="Search Tools">
 <outline text="Large Directories">
  <outline type="link" text="Yahoo!" description="Yahoo! is one of the big three directories, one of the oldest directories, and one of the largest; it often takes a long time for Yahoo! to add new websites." url="http://dir.yahoo.com/" best="true" faganID="yah" />
  <outline type="link" text="Galaxy" description="Galaxy is one of the oldest directories; it appears to also make use of the Open Directory." url="http://www.galaxy.com/" faganID="gal" />
  <outline type="link" text="JoeAnt" description="Unlike other directories, JoeAnt lists for every website a rating out of three, whether it includes audio, chat, downloads, games, shopping, video, and if it is a paid site" url="http://www.joeant.com/" faganID="joe" />
  <outline type="link" text="Skaffe" description="Skaffe began by former editors of Disney&#8217;s Go portal&#8217;s directory, and is one of the larger directories today." url="http://www.skaffe.com/" faganID="ska" />
  <outline type="link" text="GoGuides" description="GoGuides began by former editors of Disney&#8217;s Go portal&#8217;s directory, and is one of the larger directories today." url="http://www.goguides.org/" faganID="gog" />
  <outline type="link" text="Gimpsy" description="Unlike most directories, Gimpsy is not organized by topic. It is organized by &#8216;action&#8217;, such as make, sell, watch, play, get, learn, etc." url="http://www.gimpsy.com/" faganID="gim" />
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 <outline text="Open Directory Project">
  <outline type="link" text="Open Directory Project" description="the actual Open Directory Project; the largest directory, edited by volunteers, and owned by AOL." url="http://www.dmoz.org/" faganID="dmoz" />
  <outline type="link" text="Google Directory" description="Powered by the Open Directory, this search uses Google&#8217;s algorithm, and directory pages rank sites by PageRank&#8482; rather than alphabetically." url="http://directory.google.com/" best="true" faganID="goo" />
  <outline type="link" text="ODP with Thumbshots" description="This website is exactly the same as the Open Directory, except that thumbnail images of websites are shown beside each search result." url="http://open.thumbshots.org/" faganID="thumb" />
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 <outline text="LookSmart">
  <outline type="link" text="LookSmart" description="LookSmart is one of the big three directories. The company is currently having financial difficulties." url="http://www.looksmart.com/" best="true" faganID="look" />
  <outline type="link" text="Zeal" description="LookSmart-owned Zeal has volunteers which edit the LookSmart/Zeal directory; unlike LookSmart, results show categories on top." url="http://www.zeal.com/" faganID="zeal" />
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 <outline text="Smaller Directories">
  <outline type="link" text="Re-QUEST dot Net" description="Some listed websites are accompanied by their search tools." url="http://www.re-quest.net/" best="true" faganID="req" />
  <outline type="link" text="Ranks.com" description="Ranks.com goes more for quality over quantity than most directories, including less than 5,000 websites." url="http://www.ranks.com/" faganID="ranks" />
  <outline type="link" text="IllumiRate" description="The IllumiRate directory is edited by volunteers. Each website listed includes a description, and may contain any number of ratings and brief reviews by other editors." url="http://www.illumirate.com/" faganID="ill" />
  <outline type="link" text="BBC WebGuide" description="This small directory is part of the BBC." url="http:///www.bbc.co.uk/webguide/" faganID="bbc" />
  <outline type="link" text="Homepageseek" description="Homepageseek specializes in listing smaller websites." url="http://www.homepageseek.com/" faganID="hps" />
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 <outline text="Academic">
  <outline type="link" text="Librarians&#8217; Index" description="the Librarians&#8217;s Index to the Internet is run by librarians in California. It includes over 12,000 listings, which are well annotated with a description and subjects, and are routinely re-checked." url="http://www.lii.org/" best="true" faganID="lii" />
  <outline type="link" text="Resource Discovery Network" description="Resource Discovery Network is a collaboration of many eduational and research institutions in the United Kingdom. It is actually a network of eight &#8216;hubs&#8217; of different subject areas. Each website listing is quite extensive, including at least a description, subjects, and resource type." url="http://www.rdn.ac.uk/" faganID="rdn" />
  <outline type="link" text="Awesome Library" description="Awesome Library is a directory intended for students from kindergarten to grade 12 and above, as well as teachers, parents, and librarians. It includes over 24,000 listings." url="http://www.awesomelibrary.org/" faganID="awelib" />
  <outline type="link" text="BUBL LINK" description="BUBL LINK is a directory of websites, catalogued by the Dewey Decimal Classification. Each link includes a comprehensive description, author, subjects, resource type, and country" url="http://bubl.ac.uk/link/" faganID="bubl" />
  <outline type="link" text="Internet Public Library" description="The Internet Public Library began as a project in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. It is a web directory which also includes special sections for kids and teens." url="http://www.ipl.org/" faganID="ipl" />
  <outline type="link" text="Britannica" description="The Encyclop&#230;dia Britannica maintains an online web directory, but it is not divided into categories and cannot be browsed" url="http://www.britannica.com/" faganID="brit" />
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 <outline text="Guides">
  <outline type="link" text="About" description="About is a collection of several hundred guides, each edited by a different person, each including information, news, links, a forum, etc." url="http://www.about.com/" best="true" faganID="about" />
  <outline type="link" text="Suite101" description="Suite101 is made up of communities, which are made up of topics. Each community includes a forum, and each topic includes many articles and external links." url="http://www.suite101.com/" faganID="suite" />
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<outline text="Links">
 <outline text="Inside Fagan Finder" type="link" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/">
  <outline type="link" text="Search Engines" description="" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/engines/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Meta Search Engines" description="" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/meta/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Kids Search Engines" description="" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/kids/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Advanced Reference" description="" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/aref/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Keywords" description="" url="http://www.faganfinder.com/keyword/" />
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 <outline text="Browse-only Directories">
  <outline type="link" text="WWW Virtual Library" description="The World Wide Web Virtual Library is the oldest directory on the Internet, started by Tim Berners-Lee, creater of the web. Each section of the directory is hosted at a different website and maintained by a different person; some sections are kept more up-to-date than others." url="http://www.vlib.org/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Digital Librarian" description="Digital Librarian is a web directory maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian. It is divided into almost 100 categories, each of which is a comprehensive listing of resources." url="http://www.digital-librarian.com/" />
  <outline type="link" text="Hoppa" description="Hoppa is web directory that doesn&#8217;t fit the standard model. Each link is listed in one or more geographic locations and one or more categories. The directory is browsed by the intersection of any location on the location hieararchy and any category on the category hierarchy. Each site includes a description, a thumbnail, a cached version of the page, and links to related categories. The directory is edited by volunteers." url="http://hoppa.com/" best="true" />
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