]> 1999-07-31T00:00:00-05:00 In the course of investigating this idea, we address the problem of automatic categorization of webpages in the Yahoo! directory. We use Telltale as our classifier; Telltale uses n-grams to compute the similarity between documents. We experiment with various types of descriptions for the Yahoo! categories and the webpages to be categorized. Our findings suggest that the best results occur when using the very brief descriptions of the Yahoo! categorized entries; these brief descriptions, which are part of the Yahoo! index itself accompany most entries. We discuss further research and ways to improve on the performance of our method.]]> 2679 dMNbtsruL_QJ 2 88478