exposure - 3:47 am on Nov 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

RE >>why should/would Google fund them?
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RE >>Because they label DMoz as Google Directory...

We should not forget that not only does Google use the DMOZ data, and consider it important, but they also own at least 10% of AOL, which owns all of DMOZ.

If DMOZ fails, it'd be a shame and both AOL and Google would be at fault. While we could, and have, plenty to say about the editors and their responsiveness and timeliness, more could be said about why Google or AOL doesn't fix that problem by throwing a few bucks or brain cells into it.

I know AOL recently revamped Netscape by actually paying people to help, and they for some reason got a lot of flack for that, but I don't really consider it a bad thing for editors to be paid and I'd think that DMOZ has a great head-start on something that could really be considered legit if editors were employed by Google/AOL to be unbiased and professional and timely.

It's not going to happen, but it would be useful to the web and therefor should happen.

Heck, at least either entity they could throw a few servers at the problem.