BillyS - 3:10 am on Dec 22, 2006 (gmt 0)

The point here is can it re-emerge? The answer is yes, sure it can. But even if it does it will never be the same. This event is the wake up call for Google. They are a multi-billion dollar company and they can no longer rely on DMoz - this is embarassing.

When Google moves on (and they will) then DMoz is dead. Everyone will want to be in Google's new directory because the quality will be MUCH higher. And the day of kissing up to editors will be over.

Geocities has 98,000 listings - does that make any sense at all? You or I can be experts on a topic but we can only get one listing - no exceptions! Umm, except for Wikipedia they've got 7,500 brand new ones. I guess rules are made to be broken and that's a big problem at DMoz.