Google likes directory sites

Eric Rumsey rumsey at blue.weeg.uiowa.edu
Wed Jan 12 10:46:44 EST 2000


In working on the Hardin Meta Directory (whose purpose is to list the best
directory sites in health and medicine), we've discovered an interesting
phenomenon - Google can be used as a gateway to high-quality,
subject-specific directory sites. Because directory sites are valuable
starting points in net searching, people make links to them frequently.
Google is able to take advantage of this accumulated human-smartness, and
directory sites come to the top in Google searches.

For more info see -
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/google.html

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Eric Rumsey, Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
University of Iowa, Iowa City IA 52242
<eric-rumsey at uiowa.edu>
319-335-9875 (voice), 319-335-9897 (fax)
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources - Kudos -
http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/news.html


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