Back in my early years of internet life (college), there was a plethora of search engines that promised to find you everything that you could want to find in the blink of an eye. Google was in its infancy and had not yet come to dominate the web. I think Webcrawler was the first search site that I ever used. After awhile I settled on Yahoo. It used Google to conduct its searches but also featured a search of its own categories. I usually never even had to go down to the Google results because I found what I wanted in the categories.

I kind of miss this option in my searches but recently came across a new category-based web directory called Dirmania. It’s a free web directory that allows users to post their site in a specific category for users to search and find what they’re looking for. The old directories sometimes took weeks or months to look at your submission and get it posted live on their site. Dirmania can get your site posted in 24 hours. Good deal for a free site.

We all have to do what we can to challenge the giant search sites. Hopefully, a return to the good old days of searching a directory of categories and actually finding what you’re looking for is a step in the right direction.