· Over 14,000 links compiled by
public librarians in information supply business. Highest quality sites only.
Great, reliable annotations.
· built by human selection -- not by
computers or robot programs
· organized into subject categories,
classification of pages by subjects -- subjects not standardized and vary
according to the scope of each directory
· small and specialized
to large, but smaller than most search engines -- huge range in size
- often carefully evaluated and annotated (but not always!!)