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A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | | © A Dictionary of the Internet 2001, originally published by Oxford University Press 2001. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

directory search engine Search engines which use human indexers rather than SPIDERS. When a site is submitted to such a search engine it is read by an indexer who decides whether to list it and, if so, indexes it in a DIRECTORY structure. The best-known search engine in this category is YAHOO.

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