dir:com, dir:de, www1, www2, www3 etc.

[yvt360]

Can someone explain the difference to me between the "dir" listings and the "www" listings, I assume it is directory and web, but I am not able to reproduce the dir listings on G. I ran across a website the gives me all the tools to look at all these. I guess my question is What is the sig of the "dir" I really like the results for my keywords.

[claus]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld yvt360 :)

I do not know exactly which tool you refer to, and it will be against the TOS of this site to write it, but nevemind...

The "dir" might be the Google Directory: [directory.google.com...]

/claus

[globay]

yvt360,

Google's Directory is uses the data of the Open Directory Project, the "largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web". ;-)

Here is more information about the ODP:
[dmoz.org...]

I assume, by "www listings", you mean the web results. Google is a spider search engine, which collects it's data by saving basically all websites that it can find. Several algorithms determine the importance of the web page for a certain keyword combination, and the results are displayed in order of relevancy.

Hope that helps,

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globay