World Wide Web Subject Trees

Yahoo

Yahoo is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. Yahoo lists sites and categorizes them into appropriate subject categories. Yahoo is arguably the pioneer Internet guide.

Scout Report Archives

A searchable and browseable database of Internet sites selected by a team of librarians and scholars, the Scout Report Archives list and describe quality scholarly and general reference web sites, databases, listservs, journals, and more.

Lycos

Originating at Carnegie-Mellon, Lycos is one of the oldest Web search sites, and one of the best Internet search engines in both quality of information and relevancy of hits. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo. Its main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from the FAST Search engine.

LookSmart

LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. In addition to being a stand-alone service, LookSmart provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many other partners.

Librarians’ Internet Index

"By Librarians, for Everyone!" The LII is another searchable and browseable database of quality Internet sites. Each entry has a brief description of the site's contents.

Direct Hit

Direct Hit measures what people click on in the search results presented at its own site and at its partner sites, such as HotBot. Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher in Direct Hit's rankings. Thus, the service dubs itself a "popularity engine." Direct Hit is owned by Ask Jeeves.

Created and maintained by: Deborah Rollins and Sharon Fitzgerald | Revised: 01/28/2008