Yahoo is Killing Off Its Directory Links

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

Yahoo started as a hand-crafted directory of Websites. When I worked at CNET we would study the directory and get yelled at for not having as detailed and organized an “ontology” as Yahoo. And then came Google. Now that Google is kicking a$$ and taking names, the gang at Yahoo seem to be playing copycat by dumping the directory links in search results. The gang at SearchEngineRoundtable took some screenshots to illustrate the point.

Shot one: the old search result with links to the directory:

Shot two: The new and more Google-ized version:

We Say: With a good search engine, guess you don’t need a directory. When was the last time you used it? Source: SeachEngineRountable