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Sep 26, 2014 · But before Google, there was the Yahoo Directory and its hand-compiled list of websites, organized into topics. Now, the venerable Yahoo Directory is closing. Yahoo shared the news today, a short ...
The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo! Search in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014.
Sep 27, 2014 · The Yahoo Directory was Yahoo's first flagship service. It lasted through all of the company's scrambles with search, but won't survive the year.
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Sep 27, 2014 · The Yahoo Directory was Yahoo's first flagship service. It lasted through all of the company's scrambles with search, but won't survive the year. By David Murphy
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Oct 7, 2014 · Christian du Lac, who worked on the directory from 1999 to 2004, says he was "bummed out" when he read the news it was shutting down. "It had a lot of influence," he says. "Yahoo was the directory." Du Lac thinks the directory's ethos -- a zealous dedication to the most logical and useful arrangement of information -- has been lost on the Internet.
The directory was Yahoo!'s first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web. When Yahoo! changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo! Search in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014.
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Sep 27, 2014 · Yahoo Directory, a site that was once the center of Yahoo's internet dynasty, is being shut down at the end of the year. ... But eventually time and high-quality search engines left handmade lists ...
