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What is the difference between a directory and an index?

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What is the difference between a directory and an index?

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webpage directory is usually maintained by human editors who vet submitted sites and organise them into categories. The open directory project (dmoz) is a highly regarded free directory which is used by google to determine a website’s description text in serps. On the other hand an index is an automatically maintained database websites which is generated through web crawls by search engine spiders such as googlebot.

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