's first offering and started in 1994 under the name Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web.

changed its main results to crawler-based listings under Yahoo!

Search in October 2002, the human-edited directory's significance dropped, but it was still being updated as of August 19, 2014.

The directory originally offered two options for suggesting websites for possible listing: "Standard", which was free,[3] and a paid submission process which offered expedited review.

[4] "Standard" was dropped, and a non-refundable review fee of $299 ($600 for adult sites) was required when suggesting any website.