OutdoorMan - 2:17 pm on Jan 23, 2008 (gmt 0)

From what I've read here an elsewhere, Google know exactly what 'category' (area/niche) a website belongs to, by analysing a website's external links and overall content -- If not it wouldn't be possible for Google to decide whether or not a webpage is relevant for a given search query.

Google could make their own, more accurate and dynamic (compared to DMOZ and others), directory and place websites in categories based upon information that Google allready has about the websites in their index.

I believe that it can be done by using the data that Google allready have. But the question isn't whether or not it's possible for Google to make such a directory. The question is more like why should they do it?

[edited by: OutdoorMan at 2:18 pm (utc) on Jan. 23, 2008]