How to check for a directory listing?

No easy way to check

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I'm trying to figure out how to accurately check if a given web site is in the Yahoo directory but I'm having no luck.

For example, take the web site: web.com

There are three search options that I have found:
1) [search.yahoo.com...]

This produces 311 results, like www.digital-web.com, mexico.web.com.mx, and so on. There is no easy way other than manually looking through all 311 results to determine if web.com is in there.

2) [search.yahoo.com...]

This produces 476,000 results, many of which show directory listings but again it is not easy to see if web.com is one of the directory results.

3) [search.yahoo.com...]

This produces 3,190 results but is much better. All of the search results appear to be subdomains of web.com and many have directory listings.

NOW TRY plowhearth.com in search 3). There are so many non-directory results that it is difficult to determine if there is a directory result. Trying search 1) in this case confirms it.

So is there a single search that can easily show if there is a directory listing for a web site?

Thanks,
Jarrod

[hakre]

hi jarrod,

with yahoo you have to differ between web search and their directory. it's possible to search the directory with this url:

[de.search.yahoo.com...]

this is now for the german directory. i think it's easy to adopt for other languages:

- goto the yahoo homepage
- select a category out of the directory
- use the search

there you'll get your link.

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Hi hakre,

That doesn't work for me. It still shows many web sites that have the domain name in them as a sub-string.

As per my example seaching for web.com still shows many results when doing a "directory" search, like:

www.digital-web.com
mexico.web.com.mx
www.3d-web.com

In fact the real web.com (www.web.com) doesn't appear until number 52 in the search results (the third page assuming 20 per page).

What I am trying to do is find web sites in the directory by URL/domain and I don't know the category that they are in.

Thanks,
Jarrod

[bmcgee]

I don't know if this is the solution, but it does work in the "web.com" example. When doing your search, include the domain in quotes.

Then when you flip over to the Directory listings, you will see that web.com has risen to the top.

Will it work for others? Worth a try...

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Thanks bmcgee,

Unfortunately it doesn't work for most other domain names (for example web.net). It works for web.com because the web.com homepage is titled "Web.com". When doing an exact phrase match search in the directory it appears as though the domain name is ignored - only the title and text on the page are checked.

Jarrod