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Originally Posted by martty
Thats years old and sadly in need of updating. It from the days when Google used to include the category of the google directory in the search results display if a site was listed in the directory. That stopped displaying that years ago when there research showed that not many searchers were clicking on it and it was valuable real estate to waste.
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Completely agree.
My conclusion after having manually checked about 1/10 of the links in my collection. It is very difficult to
automatically check them for content change with tools like
CyberWatcher (Norwegian) and
Find broken links on your site with Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) You may have linked to an article that you liked and would like to share with your visitors. Later that article redirects to a site that will never get a link in my collection. My link is no longer semantic and is is out of context. So you are who you link to.
For that reason a manually surveyed directory should be very important as a feed to any SE unless it is very sophisticated. I have also found such links in dmoz. So I am not alone.