Advantages of Directories

Advantages

• Quality Control.
• Browsable- tree structures, classified order.
• In context- review process.
• Some use library classification.
• Often nationally based.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Meta-Search Engines

Advantages

• You can get results from multiple search engines without having to visit each one. It gives your search a broader scope to look at, since each search engine's index differs from each others.

Disadvantages

• May need to decode query forms.
• Translations of query syntax and fields not exact.
• Some sources don't sort by relevance.
• No way to compare relevance.
• Vulnerable to search spam.
• Results returned as HTML without useful tagging, require screen scrapping.
• Variable quality of search engines.
• Must keep up with changes in source engines.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Search Engines

Advantages

• The indexes of search engines are vast, offering a wide variety and quantity of information resources.
  
• The growth of search engine software enables us to describe the information that we seek.
  
• The variety of search engines enrich the Internet, making it appear to be organized.

Disadvantages

• Regardless of growth, many well thought-out search phrases produce list after list of irrelevant web pages. The typical search still requires sifting to find the thing that you need.

Directories

Here is a list of the Directories that you can use to look things up with:

• Looksmart
• Anywho
• Open Directory
• Yahoo!

Meta-Search Engines

Here is a list of the meta-search engines that you can use to search the Internet for information:

• Dogpile
• IxQuick
• Metacrawler
• Surfwax
• Vivisimo

Search Engines

Here is a list of the many search engines that you can use, to find information:

• Google
• Yahoo
• Alltheweb
• Altavista
• Hotbot
• Lycos
• MSN
• Teoma
• Wisenut

Anywho.com (directory)

Antwho.com is an online directory. Online directories look up phone numbers and addesses, as well as finding reverse look ups and ZIP codes. So if you have someone call you and you don't know who it is, just go on to any online directory and do a reverse look up on the number that called you.