Difference between Web directory and search engine

[JerryWalker]

Thanks friend! You all have provided some really good informations on Web Directory and Search Engine, we can now easily distinguish between this two.

[MelWhitmer]

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[malihariz]

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[sudhakar1]

Hi,
The search engine is like google, yahoo, bing .its one of the tool to support the www find the webpage information, This information based on Keyword by the user.
The web directory is an Google directory allow the user history in the engine .And the where is locate and display the information based on formula algorithm its one of the automatic software .

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[kumarsatish]

Search engines use very little programs referred to as spiders or bots that scour the web, follow links, and produce back this data to the search engine’s index. after you use Google you’re not truly looking the online, you’re looking Google’s index of the online.
Directories, in contrast, are human-powered. website house owners submit their sites to directories (sometimes for a fee, typically free) and human editors confirm the worth of the positioning and whether or not it ought to be enclosed within the directory.

[Poch1979]

Yes definitely every search engines are having defferent algorithms.