Yahoo! Directory Overview

Yahoo is the one of the Web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is human beings. It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web, employing about 150 editors in an effort to categorize the web. Yahoo has well over 1 million sites listed. Yahoo also supplements its results with those from the Inktomi Database. Yahoo is the oldest major web site directory, having launched in late 1994.

Yahoo! Web Results

As of 2/04 Yahoo is using a modified version of the Inktomi Database (Purchased by Yahoo! in 03) for it's Web results.