[thelist] Help with dmoz

[Alan McCoy]

I think the majority of the administrative problems DMOZ is experiencing can
be summed up by looking at the text in the green bar at the bottom:

"Copyright 1998-2003 Netscape"

Don't they have enough administrative problems to deal with already?

Alan



=> Chris Brody wrote:
=> >> dmoz has to go, its performance is a disgrace.
=> > Has to go where? Sure, it needs investment and better 
=> management, but 
=> > bad performance is not an argument against the value of the 
=> > directory's data, which is peerless IMO.
=> 
=> Dmoz's poor performance isn't a recent phenomena and if it 
=> continues I would assume people will start to pull the plug 
=> on the whole process - regardless of the value of the 
=> directory's data.
=> 
=> >> For non-profit/non-commercial submissions, I find Zeal to be 
=> >> excellent.
=> > I have to disagree. I wasn't aware of Zeal, but at first 
=> glance it has 
=> > a long way to go to begin to compare with the breadth and depth of 
=> > dmoz.
=> 
=> That may be the case, but I was commenting from the position 
=> of the submitter.  The ROI when submitting to Zeal far 
=> outweighs fighting the timeouts and extremely slow response 
=> time of the Dmoz.  But again, Zeal isn't available for 
=> submitters who choose to submit their sites to the 
=> commercial categories - it's for non-profits/non-commercial. 
=>  Looksmart covers the commercial side.
=> 
=> Who exactly (major players) uses the dmoz other than google? 
=>  Far as I'm concerned, just get your site listed once with 
=> dmoz (to help with pagerank on google) and then forget about it.
=> 
=> 
=> Greg Farries
=> Project Manager
=> http://mapleleafweb.com
=> Phone: 403.329.2286
=> Fax: 403.382.7148
=> Email: greg at mapleleafweb.com
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