Yeah and the stupid thing is that I used to be an editor on DMOZ about 4 years ago. I first tried to re-activated that and failed, then tried re-join and failed. I know of at least a few dozen people who had perfectly good websites rejected and I have (personally!) noted an increase in MLM-type entries and mirrored sites on DMOZ (i.e. sites where a page with same content is submitted twice, sites where a page with same content is submitted twice... get the idea!)

If you get yourself a good spider written, you can get hundreds of sites you want in your directory in seconds (or minutes), then you just spend visiting each site's homepage to check they are indeed a site suited for your directory. Then you get a wizz programmer to write some software that verifies all checked websites before adding them to your database. Frankly if one does their homework, one would discover that there is sufficient technology these to allow for computers to do the searching/collating/gathering data, and then "still" have a human site down to check entries. Okay you get a backlog of 1000s of sites in this manner. LOL, I got over 11 thousand entries for my directory still to check, but then again I am doing it all alone.

If I, on my own, can "human check" about 4000 sites in a space of about the last 10 weeks, then one wonders how long it would take someone like DMOZ to do it with their "thousands" of editors. Someone care to do the math?? And I have a very busy life, running six businesses myself and co-running 5 others with someone else.

Nathalie
Craft-Searcher.net