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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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It sounds like it's the searching technique that's not so good ;)
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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.
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Just about everything in forums about DMOZ is in the way of being moans and complaints. Corrupt editors have been discussed for a long time - sometimes started as sour grapes, by an editor who has been kicked out. But some of the arguments are started by editors - including metas. Some of them have an attitude that everyone is against them, so they start out on the attack (being the best form of defense), when no attacks were made. I've seen that happen.
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I'm sure you've heard the news by now that Google now supports the noodp tag? But, they still use Dmoz data. I think they do so because they recognize the quality of human-edited work versus something a website owner can easily manipulate. I've rarely heard of Yahoo using Dmoz snippets.
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If I haven't heard that news, I shouldn't be in this business ;) But Google doesn't exactly support the tag - they invented it. It doesn't change what I said, though. My best guess is that Google keeps the ODP data to use the descriptions as snippets when they best suit the searchterm.
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Because it's off the Google front page means absolutely nothing.
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It means that they downgraded it. I.e. they no longer considered it important enough to them to have it on the front page.