Originally Posted by ctabuk

And the bad news is that the results can be as wild and off topic as you could ever imagine.

As far as I can see, the search results do not show sites that have registered with the Directory. On 'Open Market Homebuy' I was 3rd and I have never entered the site to the Google Directory (I have others) - yet when I did my book which has two whole pages on serp with Google.com - I got gobbledygook