gpmgroup - 1:26 pm on Oct 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

When you start out with the directory you most likely choose a category you know inside out because it’s probably your passion or where you live. As you progress further you begin to cover categories which include subjects of which you inevitably no longer know to such depth.

Some categories are very broad and often companies specialize in specific areas and whilst may appear similar to the non specialist eye they are in fact catering to wholly different market segments. By not listing these sites because “we already have some” the editor is damaging the usefulness of the directory.

More worryingly there are several examples in the directory where small web based start ups appear higher up the directory tree and (therefore more prominently) simply because they appear to be a better category match or simply there because they are ‘alternative’. There is no way these small web based entities could ever hope to offer the service level, security, and guarantees of the more traditional companies many of which are excluded on the grounds that their natural categories below are already “covered”.

Edited: Reason - Sorry Jim - bad example

[edited by: gpmgroup at 2:04 pm (utc) on Oct. 3, 2007]