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March 30, 2004
Google and Open Directory
Another matter worth mentioning about the 'new Google' is the demoted presence of the Open Directory that has now been exiled into the 'more' pages of the Google links (or better replaced by Froogle). The Google links in the SERPs also do not show whether the pages belong to an Open Directory category as they did before.
This is a rather interesting development as the Open Directory project seems to be left behind at this stage. We kind of sensed for some time that Google wasnt very happy with the Open Directory and there seemed to have been major time delays in the updating of the Google directory (compared to the dmoz website).
The Open directory played a rather important role before in getting your website listed high (and listed quickly) in Google but I have the feeling that this is changing rapidly.
Posted by Basileios at March 30, 2004 05:21 AM
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I have 3 months old site. Believe or not I have been hesitating to submit it in DMOZ. The reason -I did not like the possibility that in future Google may use DMOZ and Froogle to find out and perhaps penalise commercial sites. Now it seems that the loses from not submitting to DMOZ are even less important.
Posted by: Vaclav Mach at April 1, 2004 01:56 AM