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Originally Posted by SPC2
I've never had an experience anything like that with the post-Google search engines. Give me an example of a searchterm that you used, please.
I almost always find what I'm looking for on the first page, and usually in the top few results.
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We must be searching for completely different things. I have searched for many different things using SEs.I'd usually go for double digit pages, then start over with new search terms. How about Apache server, Installing Apache, how to install Apache, Apache help, Apache tutorial, Apache, etc, I used a lot of different keywords before I finally got a clue - and that's just one search I performed on one day and over an hour before I finally gave up because I only found 1 site that was useful, but still wasn't exactly what I wanted. But, you'd also have to know exactly what I was looking for when I was searching for those terms at the time, because what you might think is a helpful site, is something I came upon and found useless.
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Originally Posted by SPC2
Anyway, we've strayed off-topic here, and to get back...
It's utterly unscrupulous for an editor of a free directory to write to a submitter and say, thank you for submitting your site - the speed it will take to list it depends on how much you are willing to pay. For that category, DMOZ became a paid listing service for a while. Utterly unscrupulous.
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I agree. But, from the e-mail I got the impression that he wasn't going to list the site unless the guy paid. Either that, or he'd let the guy's site intentionally stay in unreviewed for at least a year. And, unfortunately, I already see posts on other forums where people are asking about a "list of corrupt editors" and if they should initiate the contact, or wait for the editor to initiate it. And, that's a very good factual point about that category made Dmoz a paid listing service for a short while.