dataguy - 3:20 am on Jul 20, 2007 (gmt 0)

DMOZ has had a net increase in sites listed of 2467 sites during the month of June. How many other directories can claim that incredible level of growth?

Are you serious? My directory gets 30,000 submissions per day, of which usually about 2,500 are approved and added. From 7 AM to 10 PM CST, 7 days a week the normal backlog is about 2 hours. All this is done with a paid staff of 4 (2 part-time and 2 full-time).

Removing dead and changed listings, the net gain is normally about 50,000 per month. We've been at this level for years. We use a system of Bayesian filtering and caching so our editors can work efficiently. It's certainly not rocket science, but yet we are to believe that adding 2,467 listings a month is an incredible rate of growth for an organization as large as the DMOZ?