So the team decided to rebuilt the directory to more closely resemble that of a modern app store and that organizes extensions by category.
The BindView Corporation, a maker of computer networking software, agreed yesterday to acquire the Entevo Corporation, a closely held directory-management services concern, for $125 million in stock.
Lycos, Infoseek, the Alta Vista service of the Digital Equipment Corporation, and the closely held Looksmart directories all will be featured on the top of Netscape's Net Search page, where visitors to Netscape's Web site can choose which service to use for information on line.
EPRESENCE INC., Westboro, Mass., a directory company on the Internet, bought the closely held SND Inc., a provider of wireless electronic commerce services, for as much as $30.5 million in cash and stock.
Users can use the directory to find the dating site that most closely fits their needs.
The closely held FastLane, based in Ottawa, sells directory-management software for Microsoft products, including Windows 2000.
MySpace, a unit of News Corp. and the U.S.' the largest social network by users, will get business listings from Citysearch, the directory service owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp. Sample pages for the new service closely resemble Yelp's.
There is also a directory of the top CrowdRanked Twitter users, but these seem to match up closely to the list of people with the most followers (which again brings us back to to @aplusk problem).
Lycos Inc. said yesterday that it had acquired the closely held Tripod Inc. for $58 million in stock, adding an on-line community to its Internet directory service.
Try your local directory.
