List of web directories
A web directory is a listing of websites organized in a hierarchy or interconnected list of categories.
The following is a list of notable web directory services.
General
- DOAJ.org – Directory of Open Access Journals
- Curlie.org – Was the first directory of the Web, and operated from 1991–2005.
Business directories
- Business.com – Integrated directory of knowledge resources and companies, that charges a fee for listing review and operates as a pay per click search engine.
- Yell – is a digital marketing and online directory business in the United Kingdom
Niche
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web – international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- Virtual Library museums pages – directory of museum websites around the world.
Regional
- 2345.com - Chinese web directory founded in 2005. The website is the second most used web directory in China.
- Alleba - Filipino search engine website, with directory.
- Timway - web portal and directory primarily serving Hong Kong.
Defunct directories
- AboutUs.com – directory from 2005 to 2013.
- Anime Web Turnpike - was a web directory founded in August 1995 by Jay Fubler Harvey. It served as a large database of links to various anime and manga websites.
- Biographicon – directory of biographical entries.
- Google Directory – copy of DMOZ directory, with sites listed in PageRank order within each category. Closed in July 2011.
- Internet Public Library – librarian-edited directory, product of a merger with the Librarians' Internet Index in 2010. Closed in June 2015.
- Intute – directory of websites for study and research. Maintenance stopped in July 2011, archives remain available.
- LookSmart – operated several vertical directories from 1995 to 2006.
- Lycos' TOP 5% – from 1995 until 2000 it aimed to list the Web's top 5% of Websites.
- Yahoo Directory– first service that Yahoo! offered. Closed in December 2014.
- Yahoo Kids - oldest online search directory for children, until its discontinuation as of April 30, 2013.
- Zeal – volunteer-built Web directory; it was introduced in 1999, acquired by LookSmart in 2000, and shut down in 2006.
- ProgrammableWeb – resource on APIs that provides a directory of APIs.
- Dalilmasr - Egyptian online directory