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Originally Posted by Cyrus255
As for the ODP stuff... preaching to the choir.
Does anyone think ODP is better than say, Yahoo Directory? Leave out price as a factor.
Or even Best of the Web (BOTW.org) is only $50 and WAY better run and even MORE selective than ODP in my opinion.
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No, I think Yahoo is much better, it's my second choice, then MSN.
Problem is that people don't know much about the other search engines. Google has spent a fortune in advertising, as did Yahoo a while back. MSN kinda comes with Windows, so many use that without knowing
anything, and get used to it.
DMOZ is a source of listings for many engines, as filler. I think it is valuable in that sense if done properly. Maybe if they did a thorough cleaning of their database as well as their "editors", it could become #4 out there. I think it would take a $50 per year charge to keep better quality listings too.
That is not a cure-all, for sure, but could cut the junk in half.
My peeve about Google is all the links that go to nothing but adwords pages with no content being listed higher than my relevant content pages.
Google needs to divert some of its staff from blue-sky projects on cleaning up their listings.
Automation is one thing, but you have to have people involved. Yahoo needs to compromise a bit too.
They all need to strike a happy medium and reduce the weighting of the popularity factor and try and find a way to judge on content relevance. Content is king.
That would get the searchers back... (IMHO)