Directories are one of the most critical indexing
processes, which is part of our daily existence and part of our every day lives,
where for any information search, reaching out to any essential services in our
day-to-day chores, or calling up emergency services like fire, police,
ambulance; it’s the simple old ‘Directories’ which comes to our rescue and
guides us to our conveniences at the time of crisis or ‘SoS’.
Can we imagine our day’s work without these simple Directories?
May be we would shudder in horror that when the boss wants us to reach out to
the clients, who are HNIs (high net worth individuals), living in the up-market
locality- say, the Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood- bingo the Directories are the
only savior, to look for the listings of the millionaires in the telephone
directories residing on the most enviable alley; or to look for the
registration listings of the Limos or Mercs or Maybachs from the local vehicle
registrars’ office or to find out the names of the head honchos of the
profitable companies from the directories at the local Chamber of Commerce. So,
at every step we need ‘them’, who are inseparable from our lives, and have
become the most essentials in our roads to professional success.
So some intelligent human being had the vision to see
the invaluable need of these well structured, contented and informative indices
in our day-to-day existence and came out with the brilliant idea of creating a
‘yellow page’ or ‘contended directory services’ which would probably give any
possible information, be it essential services, the doctors on call, the local
grocery shops, call-on cabs, local public phone booths, the pet veterinary,
that specialty gourmet restaurant or the community plumber; all are listed out
there. Even today, netizens would vouch that all web searches are simply
possible because information are indexed in form of directories where any
specific search, results in the respective directory/s to be invoked and we get
the data in relevant structured form, easy to decipher and simple to use
further. Even technically if we look at how thee vast ocean of information or
data banks are maintained in the invisible repository in the world wide web
(www), it is needless to say that the databases of the search engines (like google
or yahoo say for example) are categorized into specific directories and
libraries where the search criteria are designated into various filtering and
sorting methodology that when any search commands are executed, the particular
indexed directory/s are triggered and pops us the requisite search results to
our immense conveniences.
Thus ‘directories’ are just inseparable from
our very existence in today’s life, be it personal, professional, education or
otherwise. Just imagine keeping away from ‘these’ for a day, you would possibly
be racking your brain as where to where to find the exquisite dealer of ethnic
arts, who probably has the rare collections of the equally obscure artifacts,
which your boss wants you to find out in a jiffy!
