g1smd - 7:45 pm on Sep 27, 2007 (gmt 0)

The reason people loved ODP was the pagerank and the traffic it sent. <<

Ahem. Wrong end of the production line.

The directory is built so that people looking for information on a particular topic could find a bunch of sites covering that topic, with relative ease, simply by drilling down through the category heirarchy, or by using the internal site search to directly find that category and any others that are closely related.

[edited by: Webwork at 1:43 pm (utc) on Sep. 29, 2007]
[edit reason] Tidying up [/edit]