UH-Victoria

Directories versus Search Engines

 

Adams and Clark tell us, “Over the last few years, search engines and directory outlines have begun to merge. [. . .] Today, search engines that used to be exclusively key-term driven now offer directory outlines, and search engines that used to be just directory outline-oriented now allow for key term input. Not to be outdone by the other model, each adopted the properties of the other.” (2001, p. 166)