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It has long been a topic since 1995, of contention that DMOZ is corrupt. Personally, I thought that the corruption began as a result of AOL buying Netscape. Netscape had purchased DMOZ in the pass. AOL and Netscape are now using Google.

Google and AOL both had a common enemy: Microsoft. They seemed to have a natural relationship. AOL and Google began many alliances including Google's strong endorsement of DMOZ. DMOZ, by a weird coincidence), had tens of thousands of links to CNN pages, making the purchase of Netscape/DMOZ the largest link purchase transaction in history in 1995.


Of course when a link was placed in DMOZ, a link would soon appear in Google's Directory. For years, Google turned a blind eye to DMOZ's corrupt practices.


According to some news reports in December of 2005, MSN (Microsoft), will soon be providing search results to AOL instead of Google. I wonder what happens to DMOZ as a result? Will Google begin to use a different source for their Google directory? Will Google continue to ignore DMOZ's corrupt practices? Will Google automatically provide a institutional bias to benefit the sites listed in DMOZ? Will the corruption of DMOZ continue?

However, Yahoo Directory (October 24, 2006) now supports the Open Directory Project (ODP) DMOZ. See this page http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000368.html


AOL and Netscape are now using Google in or about late October, 2006

McAfee SiteAdvisor, a safe browsing service, collated the new numbers as a follow-up to a May 2006 survey of several thousand keyword searches that found 5% of the links served up by Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com send people to sites that can infect computers with malware or plague users with spam.

Last month, the same searches linked to 12% fewer sites judged risky by SiteAdvisor; overall, 4.4% of the sites returned by the five search engines were tagged with red or yellow warnings by SiteAdvisor in November 0f 2006. View Story

Search engine professionals know that the vast majority of these search engines have a very low usage rate and will drive hardly any traffic your way. In fact, it's only a handful of search engines that drive the majority of traffic from search engines to websites.

Some of the most important search engines, probably accountings for more than 90% of the search engine market, are:

Google http://www.google.com/
Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com/
Inktomi Inktomi is now merged with yahoo.com (to submit Inktomi thought the back door at: http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm)
MSN http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Teoma Teoma is now merged with Ask.com
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/
AOL and Netscape are using Google results

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temi

I learn from one of DMOZ editors that the editing login interface has been offline for over 2 month now. I personally thing DMOZ has outlived its usefulness.

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wmicro

wrong year it is 2005 and not 1995

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temi

Wrong year or righ year, DMOZ is just a sorry mess, I hope AOL will sort it out.

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It is my understanding that they accidentally deleted the Admin server. The whole thing.

Then they found out that the automatic backups had been switched to "manual, on-demand" backups 6 months ago, and no one knew. It's gone. The whole DMOZ system.

Now they are trying to rebuild it from bits and pieces from all over the net. One of the people trying to put it back together like trying to put the puzzles back together with missing pieces.

With a response from a Die Hard or Hard to Die DMOZ Meta. From the heart of META Editors about the DMOZ Outage see this thread
http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_...ed_up_yet.html

And why is yahoo using an out dated system for information in search results in Open Directory Project (ODP)?

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