He describes the time, in the mid-nineties, when Jerry Yang and David Filo took him to visit their campus trailer, which was littered with pizza boxes and soda cans, to show off a directory of Web sites called Yahoo.

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The China Internet Network Information Center, which answers to China's Ministry of Information Industry, controls the master "directory" of ".cn" Web sites.

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These novel products are called mashups, a marriage of bits of two or more Web sites to create a third product: a directory of pizzerias on a neighborhood map, for example, to show where the nearest deep-dish resides.

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We recommend that newcomers start with our favorite, Emerging Markets Directory, a great site for education and a useful gateway to other company and financial market sites.

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