"Yahoo was initially "just a list of websites" but the role it played was very much the role that Google plays for so many people today" More specifically - yo

"Yahoo was initially "just a list of websites" but the role it played was very much the role that Google plays for so many people today" More specifically - you went there and could "search" the directory. You put in a word or phrase and it searched the directory listings to find matches. It was just only searching its own very limited set of info, vs a crawled index of all the content of the sites. IIRC, they'd also started charging ($250 IIRC?) for adding a listing to their directory sometime in the late 90s or so.