| Search Engine | Web Directory |
|---|---|
| It uses programs like robots,crawlers or spiders which gives the results for your searches. | It is human powered, Site owners submit their sites to directories and determine which site to be include in directory. |
| Search engines don't have any category specific page. |
Search directories have different specified categories where users can search URLs and links. |
| Examples: Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask.com, Baidu, AOl.com, DuckDuckGo, Wolframalpha etc. | Examples: dmoz.org, ii.org , business.com, botw.org,sunsteam.com etc. |
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