When, a few years ago, I wanted to find a therapist to deal with some of life's harsher blows, I realised that most directories couldn't give me what I needed.
Most directories default to spiders like Inktomi.
Most directories have a screening process so to make sure your site gets accepted always have fresh and unique content.
Other projects include sites where you can teach common sense to a computer, proofread classic literature for a free e-library and help maintain the most comprehensive directory of the Web.
It also includes a standard language to describe what each service does and a standard mechanism to invoke it.But the most ambitious directory proposal so far is Microsoft's Hailstorm initiative a set of web services that is due to become available sometime next year.
It believes, by the way, that it runs the most comprehensive directory of blogs on the Web through its Blog Finder tags-based service launched last September.
The most useful directory will probably be one, like Novell's, that can work with a variety of operating platforms NetWare, Windows, Sun's Solaris, and one, like Novell's, that has the capacity to scale up.
That is why, this Valentine's Day, I'm declaring my love for the Food Rescue Locator, the most comprehensive directory of U.S. food rescue organizations.
The preeminent source for all things gay wedding, Equally Wed also offers the most comprehensive directory of gay-friendly wedding vendors in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
The most comprehensive directory of NGO registration so far, with almost 1,000 organizations profiled, is headed by the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Haiti.
