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Yahoo Directory

What are Directory categories and how are they organized?

The Yahoo! Directory is an online guide to the World Wide Web. It is a catalog of sites created by a staff of editors who visit and evaluate web sites, and then organize them into subject-based categories and sub-categories.
Yahoo! editors distinguish between a number of factors when organizing web sites, including commercial vs. non-commercial, regional vs. global, and so forth. All of the site listings in the Directory are contained in an appropriate place within the 14 main categories seen on the front page of the Yahoo! Directory:

Arts & Humanities

Photography, History, Literature, Performing Arts…

Business & Economy

Products, Shopping, B2B, Finance, Jobs…

Computers & Internet

Internet, WWW, Software, Games…

Education

College and University, K-12…

Entertainment

Movies, Actors, Humor, Music, TV…

Government

Elections, Military, Law, Taxes…

Health

Diseases, Drugs, Fitness, Medicine, Hospitals, Medical Centers…
News & Media

Newspapers, TV, Radio…

Recreation & Sports

Sports, Travel, Autos, Outdoors…

Reference

Phone Numbers, Dictionaries, Quotations…

Regional

Countries, U.S. States, Local…

Science

Animals, Astronomy, Biology, Engineering…

Social Science

Languages, Archaeology, Psychology…

Society & Culture

People, Environment, Religion, Home & Garden, Food…
Browse the Directory

You can browse the Directory going to the category list located in the left sidebar on the Directory homepage and clicking through the category links. Each category link takes you to a collection of sites on the same subject. You can browse your way through a large index of sites organized by Yahoo!.

Search the Directory

To narrow your search to see Yahoo! Directory sites only:
-From the Yahoo! homepage, click "more" above the search box, then click Directory from the drop down options and continue your search.
-Start your search from the Yahoo! Directory homepage.
The top of a Directory search results page is titled "Directory Results." Click on any "Related Directory Categories" or the Directory "Category" links under each result to go to that category page in the Yahoo! Directory.
When you are on a Yahoo! Directory category page:
-The heading at the top of the page starting with "Directory >" identifies the category path.
-Options above the search box "the Directory" and "this category" give you the choice to search the full Directory or narrow your search to a specific category.

For information on how to suggest a site to the Yahoo! Directory, please read Suggest a Site Help

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