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It’s all in the details. 
If you haven’t heard of Directory Dump Web Directory, I’m sure it won’t be much longer before you do. While the average Internet directory is satisfied with offering a categorized data base of annotated listings, Directory Dump is continually refining the way they present their content.
The owner is always looking for ways to set Directory Dump apart from the average directory, and has succeeded in several ways.
The LIVE! Stats displayed in the R/H column give you a clear indication of the traffic they receive; both daily and monthly. Below the LIVE! stats are the categories most recently visited.
The Popular Categories listed in the L/H column show the most visited categories, and there are related live news feeds for each category.
All of the category listings display a thumbnail image of the site when you mouse over the listing which gives their visitors a nice preview before visiting the site.
The submission form has some unique features not found on most directories utilizing a similar script; each listing type provides a preview and the option to list a RSS feed is also available for Featured listings.
The newest upgrade provides Website Statistics for each listing on the details page; you can see how many citations a listed web site has from .edu and .gov sites, Technorati links and del.icio.us links.
Also included are DMOZ and the Yahoo! Directory listings, and some Google statistics; the number of indexed pages, links, related pages and cache status. There are also categories for Wikipedia citations and the current Alexa ranking.
A good example of the details pages is seen here for a new Internet Resource Guide, eWebPages.
Setting themselves ahead of your average phpLD directory has paid off, as they were recently included in DMOZ’s Web Directories category.
Google has recently updated their webmaster tools to allow you to see a larger sample of your Google backlinks beyond what the link: operator listed. The data is much more comprehensive and you can sort and even download the information.
The links are currently divided into 2 categories, external and internal links. External links are links on pages other than your site or domain. Internal links are those within your own site or domain.
Google will not reveal all of the external links indexed for your site, but they will reveal a much larger total than the link: operator reveals:
Google knows about more links than the total we show, but the overall fraction of links we show is much, much larger than the link: command currently offers.
For more information you can visit Google’s Webmaster Central Blog and check out Discover your links. Vanessa Fox offers a post about Who links to your site at the official Google blog also.
I’ve a feeling this one will keep webmasters busy for awhile.