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Originally Posted by dogluver
If that's the case, then put together some search terms and find me at least three good sites on what I was looking for ... you don't know exactly the type of information I was looking for, so you can't then do a search and tell me you found some quality sites
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I don't know exactly what you were looking for, but if you were looking for a step by step tutorial on how to intall Apache, the #1 Google listing (sitepoint) for 'install apache tutorial' provides one. If that's not what you were looking for, then you'd need to refine your searchterm - searching technique.
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Originally Posted by dogluver
Dmoz editor corruption was started by webmasters who didn't have their website listed and thought it was due to a competitor maliciously keeping it out of the directory.
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I don't think that's true. I believe it was started by webmasters discovering such corruption, which did and does exist. That's one of the fundamental problems with the ODP model.
If MSN invented the NOODP tag, I stand corrected. I first came across it with Google.
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Originally Posted by dogluver
Have you taken the time to look at Google's front page lately? There is virtually NOTHING there!
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There never was anything much there, but the directory link was one of the few things that used to be there. Relegating it from the front page wasn't a positive change for it - it was a negative one. I'm sorry, but it happened. Images searches, Video searches, etc. are important enough to put on the front page, but the directory isn't any more. It's been relegated to just one in large list of other things, and very easy to never be aware of if you didn't know it was there.
They used to include directory listings in the search results, but when did you last see one? Their directory has been downgraded a lot.
Remember that Google changed from being a major search engine company to being a major advertising agency. The advertising agency needs the search engine side for its success, but Google is primarily an advertising agency. They don't put ads in their directory pages, so the directory does nothing for them businesswise, and they don't push it. They use the data for snippets when a description suits the searchterm, but, apart from that, it certainly looks like the directory is of no importance to them. It's my opinion that, if their directory didn't exist, they wouldn't create it, but they would still use the descriptions when applicable. Or maybe they have to keep the directory going so that they can use the descriptions.