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DMOZ
Do You Respect DMOZ After 11 Years?
DMOZ has now officially been around for 11 years. AOL is honoring this birthday with a blog post on the AOL Search Blog. It says:
From its humble beginnings 11 years ago, DMOZ has grown to be the largest human-edited directory on the Web. Today, on the websites anniversary, we take a look at DMOZ's influence on the web.
Does Dmoz Still Have a Place in Search?
Dmoz.org, also known as the Open Directory Project, is widely considered to be the mother of all directories. Well, that was the case at one time, anyway. Dmoz has dropped significantly in popularity over the years, and is the subject of much criticism by webmasters looking for inclusion. What do you think about Dmoz these days? Is it still valuable? Tell us what you think.
Google Devaluing DMOZ and Yahoo! Links?
Google is no longer suggesting that you should be listed in relevant directories. In fact, they've even removed the suggestion from their webmaster guidelines, as Brian Ussery noticed. The page used to have bullet points for:
Rumor: Dmoz Selling To BOTW
Jeremy Schoemaker, of the popular Shoemoney blog, posted that the owners of Best of the Web Directory are in talks to buy Dmoz from AOL and that a "deal could be reached fairly soon."
Web Directories Battle For #1 Spot
Web directories, especially high quality ones, are coveted links for search engine marketers. The holy grail is a link on DMOZ, but it’s pretty much unreachable. I know of someone who took great lengths to become an editor so he could get his site included. A few months later he resigned in frustration.
Ideas Yahoo Must Implement Soon
By Aaron Wall
Yahoo!'s Downward Trend Yahoo! killed off their brand universe project, and recently fired 30 people. Rumor has it that about 2,000 more layoffs might be coming soon. Yahoo! shares are nearing $20, trading at $20.78, and giving them a market capitalization of $27.8 billion.
Webmasters Ponder PageRank Discrepancy
An update to the Google Directory has webmasters puzzling over an apparent discrepancy in PageRank scores.
Google Directory Updated from DMOZ Data?
By Andy Beard
I know a segment of my readers are sick to death with anything to do with Google PageRank updates, and I haven't even bothered mentioning the most recent update up until now… there wasn't really anything newsworthy in it.
No DMOZ In Google SERP!
Barry Schwartz reports that The Open Directory's Home Page Goes Missing In Google.
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