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How does Google decide who appears top ?
PageRank™ is a system devised by Google for ranking web pages and continues to play a central role in many web search tools.
Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.
Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.
How does The Open Directory select sites to list ?
The Open Directory Project is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is something akin to a huge reference library. The directory is hierarchically arranged by subject - from broad to specific. The ODP is maintained by community editors who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. They are our experts, and all submissions are subject to editor evaluation.
We care a great deal about the quality of the ODP. We aren't a search engine and pride ourselves on being highly selective. We don't accept all sites, so please don't take it personally should your site not be accepted. Our goal is to make the directory as useful as possible for our users, not to have the directory include all (or even most) of the sites that could possibly be listed or serve as a promotional tool for the entities listed.
How does a Yahoo! Directory Listings help you ?
Yahoo!, the world's most visited internet destination, reaches over 330 million unique users--potential customers for your business--each month on a local and global level.
Yahoo! Directory Submit is part of a suite of services created to help businesses like yours get more out of Yahoo!, more efficiently. Whether you've submitted to the Yahoo! Directory in the past or are a new user, Yahoo! Directory Submit provides expedited review of web sites you propose for the Yahoo! Directory.
How does a MSN Directory Listings help you ?
With more flexibility in media consumption, your target audience can be harder to find. Internet-savvy consumers around the world have chosen MSN® as their tool to help stay informed and communicate. MSN attracts an affluent audience of 400 million Internet enthusiasts each month and the MSN home page reaches more people in a day than the top 13 newspapers combined.2
With MSN you get the opportunity to reach sophisticated Web users throughout the day, inform people about your products and services, and build your brand in an interactive environment
As an advertiser today, you weigh new factors into your media mix. Broadband penetration, rising TV rates, new devices to consume media...the list goes on. MSN is an interactive portal investing in research tools, communication tools, and engaging content. End result...an indispensable part of the daily routing for millions of people.
MSN provides a non-cluttered backdrop for your message. Content partners such as FOX Sports and MSNBC give people the information they care about.