Advancements in Subject Trees

• Size of the human indexing team determines the coverage of Web contents by the subject tree (directory)

• Biggest subject trees - August 2000:Yahoo!: 150 editors, 1.6 million Web linksLookSmart: 200 editors, 2 million linksOpen Directory: 28,000 editors, 2 million links (300,000 categories)

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