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Respect For DMOZ? It's a two way street...
by PeterD, SEOBook.com
May 5, 2009
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by PeterD, SEOBook.com
May 5, 2009
A DMOZ editor complains, "Everybody loves Google, everybody loves Wikipedia - so why doesn't everybody love DMOZ?"
My blog post would be rather long if I listed all the reasons why I think people don't love DMOZ, so I'll stick to fisking the contents of the editors post.
For those who don't know what DMOZ is, and that would be the vast majority of web users, DMOZ is a largely redundant internet directory that came about back when Yahoo! Directory was too slow at processing listing requests.
Webmasters familiar with DMOZ will appreciate the obvious irony, given that you can now get a Yahoo Directory listing in a couple of days, whereas DMOZ is a hit and miss affair, specializing mostly in "miss".
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