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Almost everyone is confident with browsing the internet with search engines in 2010, as they allow us to locate things so speedily. This is great, however search engine results aren’t moderated by actual people, but by an algorithmic rule. So why would that be significant? Well, imagine you are looking for a hotel in Belfast as an example. One would enter this keyphrase into a search engine, then a number of search results would be shown. How can one know whether these results are trusted if they’ve never been filtered by people? Here’s how: search engines utilize human-edited online directories as a basic filter.

Directories still play a part on the internet, and the cleanest directories are inevitably human edited. A human may discover that (for example) : “hmm, that restaurant has been awarded a particular rating for cleanliness and having certain standards, that’s a very secure sign”. A reputable directory will receive many submissions on a daily basis. An editor will investigate these submissions, and if the administrator is happy that the quality of the entry is good enough, it is added to the online directory. This is the reason why search engines still love internet directories. Both dmoz.org and the Yahoo! directory are interrogated by search engines as filters to find out the trustworthiness of a website – whether it’s listed in these directories or not, since they are edited by humans and have rigorous rules-for-entry.

Thus don’t minimise the implication of online directories just because most individuals use search engines to find things. A directory with strict guidelines can be a primary yardstick as to how authentic a website is. If you own a website, try and get your website added in a niche directory, like a gardening directory, a clothing directory, or a health directory.