Fundamental Differences Between Search Engines And Web Directories (http://www.seochat.com/articles/2)

2003-06-01 - "Search engine" and "Web directory" are two different search services available to the Web community; although they are often mistakenly confused. Search engines have indices that are built up by robots or crawlers; whereas Web directories build up their indices through human editors. Many search engines and directories contain both a computer-generated index and a human generated index, and are referred to as hybrids. Read this article here (http://www.seochat.com/articles/2).