Provider: Yahoo, Inc.
Browsable index: Yes
Search capabilities: Yes
Item submission method: Submission, also uses a robot that looks for new announcements
Editorial function: No
Annotated: Yes, by the submitter
FAQ: Yes, for both the product and the search engine, on the home page under
"Info."
Originally written by 2 graduate students at Stanford, Yahoo is now provided by Yahoo, Inc. The service consists of a subject catalog divided into 14 top level categories and hundreds of sub-categories. Yahoo alerts users to how many links are under each category and if any new ones have been added recently. Short annotations are provided. Yahoo is very large and well known, and is the first place many people go for a subject catalog. A tip for using Yahoo: Because there are hundreds of categories, finding a specific topic may present a problem if you don't know where your topic has been filed. For example, "Agricultural Economics" can be located under "Science:Agriculture," "Social Science:Economics," and "Regional." Therefore it may prove useful to first do a cursory search to find where your subject is, and then go to the category and browse it.