When will dmoz power off
I recently wanted to check my entries in dmoz and found some of my sites were kicked out. Why did they do this? Didn’t get any explanation for sure. They did some work like reorganizing the structure - or whatever. Well, I’m a little bit angry currently - but it doesn’t make sense anyway anymore (except for backlinks - is dmoz a huge link-farm?).
Do you know a single person that uses a directory to browse the internet? Don’t think so.. but if yes - she will not use dmoz more then two times. In the “rich subject tree” you’re everytime a dozen clicks away from your goal - and the choice is subject to ‘editors’, and what’s the relation to AOL? That’s exactly not what the democratic web2.0 is for.
Google claims a few hours to add an interesting new site to its index - the dmoz wants some weeks or months. So maybe we miss some important happening when using dmoz?
Thanks a lot to all the hundreds of thousands of editors that were building the biggest directory of the universe - I am afraid it’s out-dated now - you can not take the challenge of the rapidly growing web anymore.
Yahoo already gave up - when will dmoz power off?
January 29th, 2008 at 4:58 am
I understand what you’re saying. Even though Dmoz is useless people still look at it for pr and as a source of link building. The abuse at Dmoz is beyond anything I’ve ever seen online. Just recently some allegations of extortion by an editors including one who requested a $5000 or else he removes the link of a famous blogger. When he did not receive the the money he DID remove it.
An editor at Dmoz tried to investigate why the link was removed this editor was kicked out of Dmoz. This is not a an open project, it is a Mafia crime family. Full story here
A new project located at Nomoz.org is trying to do a better job with the Dmoz data than Dmoz did.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I’m with you !