Comments on: When will dmoz power off http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2007/11/26/when-will-dmoz-die/ Observing trends in computer technology and internet business Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:02:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Martin http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2007/11/26/when-will-dmoz-die/#comment-627 Martin Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:58:04 +0000 http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2007/11/26/when-will-dmoz-die/#comment-627 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. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.dmozsucks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=955">Full story here</a> A new project located at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nomoz.org">Nomoz.org</a> is trying to do a better job with the Dmoz data than Dmoz did. 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.

]]> By: Dmoz IT http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2007/11/26/when-will-dmoz-die/#comment-717 Dmoz IT Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:12:39 +0000 http://www.feike.biz/weblog/2007/11/26/when-will-dmoz-die/#comment-717 I'm with you ! I’m with you !

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