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(1) A simulated file folder on disk. Directories and folders are two terms for the same thing. The term "directory" was first used in Unix and DOS environments. The Mac came later and used...

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(1) A simulated file folder on disk. Directories and folders are two terms for the same thing. The term "directory" was first used in Unix and DOS environments. The Mac came later and used "folder" for the same structure. Windows followed the Mac. See folder.

(2) A database of users, hardware devices and applications in a network. See DSML, directory service and metadirectory.

(3) A database of Web sites organized by subject that is used by search engines. Yahoo! was a directory site in its early days, but then added search bots to automatically index pages as the Web grew too large to manually index. Google uses information from the Open Directory Project for its directory site (http://directory.google.com). See Open Directory Project, Web search engines, metasearch sites and Yahoo!.



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