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		<title>Top 10 Directories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan (online)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/04/23/top-10-directories/" alt="Top 10 Directories"><img src="http://cdn.iconfinder.net/data/icons/pleasant/JPEG-Image.png" align="left" alt="Top 10 Directories" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>Once upon a time, Directories were the backbone of the internet.  Actually, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo started it's life out as a small human edited directory</a> attempting to organise the millions of websites out their into logical categories. Then Google came along!

Another prominent directory on the net is DMOZ aka the Open Directory Project (ODP) is  an open source initiative hailing itself as the largest Human edited Directory on the Net.

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		<title>Directories &#8211; how to submit to them</title>
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A <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_directory" title="wiki page about a web directory">directory</a> is a human edited list of websites that is categorised by topic.  The first major directory on the internet was  <a href="http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/06/24/directories-how-to-submit-to-them/">Read more..</a>]]></description>
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