It is tough to believe that businesses actually existed in the pre-Internet era. The net has so well straddled the world of business. Functions necessarily thrive on sponsorships in order to be successful, since operating costs can get quite significant. Like in the case of most other media, most of the costs are borne by advertisers and not by users.
The Internet based websites work on a similar economy as other websites. The web is practically a sprawling fair ground for thriving and established businesses, in an effort to stake their share of the user’s attention, and hopefully generate good business in the process. With numerous corporations sprawled all over and across the vast area of open cyberspace, it’s but natural for a user to be hindered by limitations when searching for a particular product or service, unless he knows the particular domain which the company has taken on.
In my opinion this makes a strong case for Internet based web directories.
Business web directories function very much like every other search engine: the user types a query or keyword which is related to a particular topic in mind, and the search engine processes...