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Hi, tell me What is the difference between a Web directory (eg. Yahoo) and a Web search engine
(eg. Google) !

Well, simply the directory is categorized compilation of sites and you should submit your site to be included while search engines uses crawlers or bots to gather site information, and uses their raking algorithm to show results..

yeah animalsmile is right.

animalsmile wrote:Well, simply the directory is categorized compilation of sites and you should submit your site to be included while search engines uses crawlers or bots to gather site information, and uses their raking algorithm to show results..

This is it!

another difference is you may get more traffic from search engines than directories.

Well, simply the directory is categorized compilation of sites and you should submit your site to be included while search engines uses crawlers or bots to gather site information, and uses their raking algorithm to show results..

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web directory is to list our site on them by different categories and SE are used to index the pages and to display our site on various keywords.

agree

thanks for your sharing

search engine is automatic，directory is manual …^^