Sep 26th 2007 9:01PM
The Search For DMOZ
Yesterday the internet was all a flutter with reports and wide ranging theories as to why searches for "DMOZ" in Google were not returning the usual results. If you happened to miss those, I've included a couple of examples that can be found here, here, here and here.
While these made for great headlines and no shortage of comments and link backs...they were 100% off the mark.
Truth is, this is just one of those things that happens from time to time in the world of search.
We made some significant upgrades to our back-end systems to improve the stability of DMOZ. One of those changes required changing the root domain from dmoz.org to www.dmoz.org. What we all witnessed yesterday and what was reported by the great sites above was part of an index recognizing, adjusting and updating in real time. This was confirmed in discussions we had with Google and everything should be running smoothly now.
So go ahead and try a query for DMOZ. And if you don't see our site, clear your browser cache and try again.
Here is a screen grab taken 5 minutes ago.
You can also give it a shot in the search box above ( click the web link & enter query ).
DMOZ is not dying folks. We're growing every day. Globally.
Feel free to use that sound bite from now on in your future posts : )
While these made for great headlines and no shortage of comments and link backs...they were 100% off the mark.
Truth is, this is just one of those things that happens from time to time in the world of search.
We made some significant upgrades to our back-end systems to improve the stability of DMOZ. One of those changes required changing the root domain from dmoz.org to www.dmoz.org. What we all witnessed yesterday and what was reported by the great sites above was part of an index recognizing, adjusting and updating in real time. This was confirmed in discussions we had with Google and everything should be running smoothly now.
So go ahead and try a query for DMOZ. And if you don't see our site, clear your browser cache and try again.
Here is a screen grab taken 5 minutes ago.
You can also give it a shot in the search box above ( click the web link & enter query ).
DMOZ is not dying folks. We're growing every day. Globally.
Feel free to use that sound bite from now on in your future posts : )
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21. Alex F. thanks for your heads-up that we have dead sites in the tutoring category. Will try to make sure some of those dead links get cleared out.
Posted at 10:55AM on Oct 4th 2007 by Alucard
22. >We are currently adding an average of 78 new editors a week.
That's an interesting fact. How many editors are there in total?
Posted at 9:20PM on Oct 6th 2007 by daisy
23. well, with dmoz the most single free important directory on the web,
we are definitely want to see our website listed.
http://www.oneseoasia.com
Posted at 5:55AM on Oct 7th 2007 by seo asia
24. I also wonder if the online pharmacy category has an editor since many links are for pharmacies that sell medications without prescription or advertise sale of prescription medictations to US from other coutries both of which are a violation of federal FDA laws and is therefore illegal.
Also, if someone can tell me what is wrong with my site http://www.zipdrugs.com that it is still not included in Dmoz i would appreciate it.
Posted at 12:45PM on Oct 8th 2007 by Legal online pharmacy
25. Glad to hear DMOZ is back. Thanks to Danny Sullivan for pointing me in this direction. I'll be patient for having our website http://www.voices.com to receive the thumbs up!
This blog is an excellent addition for opening up the lines of communication.
Posted at 10:59AM on Oct 12th 2007 by David
26. Glad to hear its resolved! Good work !
Posted at 5:10PM on Nov 4th 2007 by mazury
27. Hi all,
This blog is a very good thing, and I'm happy to see that DMOZ is well alive and kicking. I'm promoting it through various ways, http://referencement-qualitatif.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposez-vos-sites-lopen-directory.html and there is a need to keep on promoting it again and again so that its quality index get used more and more by "new" internet users. Using a search engine is good, but searching through a directory is definitely more accurate in terms of quality results, simply because it's easy to cheat web bots (so-called "black-hat" SEO tricks), not on humans ;-)
Long live DMOZ !
Posted at 4:54PM on Dec 5th 2007 by Da Code
28. Thanks to AOL and Google for working together to resolve this so quickly.
Posted at 1:18PM on Dec 23rd 2007 by infinity
29. well, with dmoz the most single free important directory on the web,
we are definitely want to see our website listed.
We offer limousine hire in london
Posted at 7:29PM on Dec 24th 2007 by Hartley Rochester
30. Im glad to see everyone here and the new editors, its really growing very fast. Lots of luck.
G. Dixon
Park Place Team
Posted at 2:42AM on Jan 2nd 2008 by Mr G. Dixon
31. How long does it take for DMOZ to respond to your request to become an editor? I applied over a month ago and haven't even received an email confirmation.
Posted at 9:39PM on Jan 27th 2008 by Lance McCollough
32. Great to hear you are hiring more editors DMOZ. DMOZ was always great and continue like that. Thanks. Bye, Francisco. I added my site http://www.comprarmonitoreslcd.com.ar , lets see.
Posted at 8:55AM on Mar 8th 2008 by Francisco Seo
33. it is using this link for DMOZ ODP http://www.prefabrik.tv/index.html only using index.html?ODP=DMOZ&lang=en
Posted at 4:16AM on May 10th 2008 by Scorpion