BillyS - 11:55 pm on Nov 29, 2006 (gmt 0)

Does anyone here really think that the average AOL investor or the general public understand the relationship between DMoz and AOL? I'll give you a hint - NO. In fact, I don't really see any value to AOL's shareholder for maintaining the system. That brings me back to my earlier statement - Google should step in.

It was pointed out to me earlier that Google merely downloads the information - thanks, I really didn't know that ;)

But what's the system worth to Google - Millions? Billions? If DMoz goes away tomorrow, are they going to throw out the Google Directory or start building their own? How would Google's shareholders react to news that their billion dollar company had to change their algo or decommission Google Directory because their free source of information couldn't buy a server or rebuild their back end system.

Google is the big loser here, not AOL.

[edited by: BillyS at 11:57 pm (utc) on Nov. 29, 2006]