The Walt Disney Company has bought 43% of Infoseek, the Internet search engine and directory service.

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But the company's software products, including Sun Internet Mail Server and Directory Server, have not sold as well as Netscape's comparable products.

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The DAG acts as a secure directory on the internet, connecting LinkedIn and all the providers.

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Winebaum's concept is to make order out of the chaos of business information on the Internet by creating a massive directory of information about companies.

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Once upon a time, before smart phones or even the Internet, a book called the Yellow Pages was the go-to directory when it came to finding local merchants.

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Born in Hangzhou in 1964, Ma first made a name for himself with his idea to start an online directory called "China Pages, " widely regarded to be China's first internet-based company.

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Bruce Schneier, an internet-security expert, thinks it is a bit like worrying about spammers stealing a copy of the telephone directory.

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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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