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RandomDot - 2:52 am on Oct 3, 2007 (gmt 0)
Assume that I was looking for something general about ... I don't know .... goldfish ... I don't really need fifty results to confuse me to start with or a number which states "534.054.543 websites found" - I just want to get to a good website about goldfish. I need three or five options at max. I go there, get what I want and it's like the coolest sites about goldfish around... Two months later.. and i'm just like really into goldfish now - it's like the coolest thing in the world, totally amazing, awesome over the top. But this time I want to know about this really rare and specific kind of goldfish which is like .. that's just .. insane you know.. so I look for two minutes more - and deeper into the category structure i'm again presented with perhaps five good results about this really special kind of goldfish.. I go there..to all five of the listed sites and everything is so cool and yay - I found out some really hefty stuff about this specific kind of goldfish and i'm still happy and I can go watch my aquarium again and go on with my life and I just love the internet. That's what I want, as a rather plain user - to be happy and get what I want without having a million options served to me and have to sort through fifty irrelevant and obscure results before I even smile the first time. That's what dmoz is about - people do the work of sorting it all for me and try to be fair - not that they're always that - but they try and it works for me - and that's pretty much how it works. What did that have to do with your original post? - You didn't get listed immediately or ever because? ... they didn't want to confuse me and make me unhappy, and sad and never know anything about goldfish =(
As a regular user of dmoz (yes, it's my start page - rarely go anywhere else to look for anything which interests me, I already got my 40 bookmarks and regular websites to visit) - i'll have to add ... that if i'm looking for a good site about some topic which I suddenly have an urge to know more about - wether it's general information or very specific information - dmoz usually has some good resources listed - it'll take a few minutes to find and figure out what site is suited for my purpose - but it's almost always there.