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Originally Posted by cbosleeds
Of course no one actually really uses these directories to find information, so the real value must be in the link and thereby goes the problem.
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Are you kidding? Vortels (vertical industry portals - know as DIRECTORIES) are the easiest way to find information and many programmers and engineers (who think logically and use them) are angry that yahoo removed it from there system a few years ago.
Personally I use the
Ornamental concrete directory
Mold makers directory
Yahoo Yellow Pages
and a bunch of other ones that are still around.
It is a way to find businesses and relevant information by a category easily drilling down, with out having to come up with KEYWORDS that owner of a website or business may or may not have come up with and a search engine algorithm may or may not have identiified!
SEARCH ENGINES LIKE GOOGLE HAS A VESTED INTEREST IN YOU NOT FINDING YOUR INFORMATION QUICKLY BY DRILLING DOWN TO IT. because they don't derive as much revenue and THEY DON'T HAVE TO SPEND ON COMPETENT EDITORS/LIBRARIANS.
Now adays it takes forever to find MSDS and USE information on products and materials because keywords and
SEO get in the way.....
Give me a directory any day of the week if it is monitored and edited!!!!!