Re: DMOZ and Google

I'm not saying being an editor doesn't take time and isn't a lot of
work. I'm sure it is.

Like I said right in the begining, I think the idea of DMOZ is great
but because people are not paid a salary, they only work when they can.
This seams to be very seldom considering how long it takes to get
listed or updated. It's very noble to volunteer but it doesn't get the
job done.

My issue is not with DMOZ or ODP itself. It is with the relevance that
google gives it in it's algos.

When it takes so long to get updates done, DMOZ is sending faulty and
out of date info to Google.

I even tried to remove one site from Google using robots.txt and all
that happened is the description that I had in the meta tags were
removed and replaced by the DMOZ description and title but the site
stayed at #1, which was even worse.

The honest truth is that if Google removed any association with DMOZ
from their algos, DMOZ would just fade away. If anyone wanted to see
the sites that DMOZ editors felt best to show them, people could go
directly to DMOZ, but somehow I don't think that would happen.

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