flicker - 3:43 pm on Oct 17, 2006 (gmt 0)

Nope, it gets listed in the parent category, Shopping/Clothing.

It would be a waste of our time and our users' to list the same website in every subcategory of the same exact category. Think about it... why even bother to HAVE subcategories if every single one has the same 40 department stores listed in it?

Generally speaking, if your website has information about, say, blue widgets, green widgets, and red widgets, we'll list your website in the parent category, Widgets. (You may like that better anyway, because the higer-level categories have more visibility and better PR. Our users definitely prefer it that way; trust me.)

If your website had information about, say, blue widgets and the life of Steve Irwin, then we'd be much more likely to consider deeplinking, because people looking for information on one of those subjects is highly unlikely to find the other.

The dichotomy isn't actually between commercial and noncommercial sites, it's between single-issue sites and high-information sites. With VERY few exceptions, commercial websites are single-issue sites. They have all the information you could possibly ever want about ONE company and its related goods and services. A high-information site, like CNN, the Smithsonian Institute, Stanford University, Wikipedia, etcetera, has tons of information on many SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT topics. Therefore, it's useful for us to list a site like that multiple times. Putting in additional listings for every single type of clothing carried by gap.com would benefit nobody but the Gap.

Forgive me if I don't consider one poster complaining about the fact that CNN's website has more listings than their own a "firestorm," exactly. ;-)