Yahoo's directory and dmoz seem orthogonal to Google. Not even in 1994, long before Google and when aptly-named WebCrawler was all the rage, would one turn to Yahoo (dmoz did not exist at the time) to find what they were looking for if they had something specific to look for. Yahoo served as a place to go when you weren't looking for anything in particular and wanted to simply explore the web.

There was a time when Yahoo also tried to get into the indexed search space, but never seemed to be a viable competitor against other players in the market. Once Google established their dominance, all bets were completely off.