A project to build a giant Web services directory touted by the likes of Microsoft and IBM has yet to catch on, as companies stumble over technology hurdles and come to grips with market hype. Born ...

Three software giants are set to launch a long-anticipated Web directory that will allow companies to find one another and conduct business online. Microsoft, IBM and Ariba, which built a test version ...

New directories are a valuable tool for Web sites that need that extra boost in search engine ranking or in their number of visitors. They make for a great way to increase Web exposure and expand your ...

As use of the Internet grew during the 1990s, various analysts and scholars came to note its apparent increased emphasis on commercial content. (Lessig, Nesson) Relative to the Internet's 1980s ...

Last night a post from the DMOZ blog titled R-E-S-P-E-C-T for DMOZ caught my eye. As I read through it, I felt for the old Open Directory Project (aka dmoz.org). Let me just quote the first line: ...

One of the most important sites of the web’s first era is about to go offline. Here’s a better suggestion. I happen to remember the very first thing I did on the World Wide Web. It was the fall of ...

For years on SEJ we’ve been a proponent of listing sites web directories as a form of traditional organic link building. And over these years many web directories have come and gone. As linking gets ...

To prevent malicious and unwanted content from being inserted into web sites on our web servers, writing files in web-accessible locations on the web server is prohibited to all customer-provided ...