Should we take the World Wide Web more serious and use it to simplify Peoples live, 90% of Directories are only Mirror Sites and almost look like copies with identical search results instead having Directories for each Country or Region we got to many useless one’s to scare the Public away of using them. I created Directory.com.au for Australia with free alphabetical listing for any Australian Business as the original Phone books use to be. I searched for similar Directories on other Countries but so far with out success please let me know if any exist.
Yes, places to place a link for search engines to pick up...isn't that what a search engine is? Even the search engines needs help where to put their ranking with sites on their product. The more input, the better- we just need more quality directories. P.S.- post here, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25 and scroll down to post general questions like these.
I would have to say nearly every country has one, check this out http://www.anywho.com/international.html