Every day, there is a growing number of web directories. Many wonder if the market is being oversaturated. While there are a lot of directories that are not very noteworthy, the others are absolutely worth using for both people doing searches, or for webmasters trying to promote their site.
Directories are very useful those who are searching for information and dont want to use the big search engines, but are looking for perhaps a smaller, specialized site that may not rank on the first page or two of a given search.
If you have no more than a general idea of what you are looking for then you can use the search form when exploring a directory, remember that you are not searching the text of the actual WebPages of a particular site. Instead you are searching the text contained in the site title and the description of the site. These titles and descriptions are made by the websites owner and sometimes by the directory webmaster.
It is important to be sure that when you do the search, you use the option search within directory, and not search the net. If you choose search the net, it will take you to a major search engine and out of the directory that...