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Yahoo Directory

The Yahoo! Directory was a web directory which at one time rivaled DMOZ in size. 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…

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Web directoryDMOZYahoo!Yahoo! Search
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Owner
Yahoo!
Commercial
Yes
Current status
Defunct as of December 26, 2014
Launched
January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01)
Type of site
Web directory
URL
Archived November 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine

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Yahoo Directory

Nodes6
Edges5
Triples7
Avg. degree1.67
Density0.333333
Components1

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Yahoo Directory

Top relations

Commercial · 1
Yahoo Directory → Yes
Current status · 1
Yahoo Directory → Defunct as of December 26, 2014
Launched · 1
Yahoo Directory → January 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01)
Owner · 1
Yahoo Directory → Yahoo!
Type of site · 1
Yahoo Directory → Web directory
URL · 1
Yahoo Directory → Archived November 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
related to External links · 1
Yahoo Directory → Internet Archive Wayback Machine

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Important terminology

yahoo directory web 2014 listings dropped suggesting standard review closing 1994 site directories wayback machine dmoz one time rivaled size

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Yahoo DirectoryCommercialYes1.00infobox
Yahoo DirectoryCurrent statusDefunct as of December 26, 20141.00infobox
Yahoo DirectoryLaunchedJanuary 1994; 32 years ago (1994-01)1.00infobox
Yahoo DirectoryOwnerYahoo!1.00infobox
Yahoo DirectoryType of siteWeb directory1.00infobox
Yahoo DirectoryURLArchived November 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine1.00infobox
Yahoo Directoryrelated to External linksInternet Archive Wayback Machine0.60section

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