Dolemite - 11:34 pm on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Google has no special relationship with the ODP. Google does use ODP data for its own directory, but this isn't due to any "special relationship".

Google uses ODP data in a highly-PR-weighted directory which violates Google's policy of not indexing or counting backlinks from duplicate content.

If I'm not mistaken, Google has helped fund the ODP.

Google uses ODP descriptions in SERPs.

What exactly qualifies as a "special relationship?" Do they need a *** love child?

My sites do extremely well in search engines, yet my main site has got over 60 hits from dmoz.org and clones. Thus as there are people using the ODP and clones to find sites, it isn't obsolete.

60 hits? Maybe you should load balance some dual Opterons to handle all that traffic. ;)

Honestly, people do some strange things. I know a guy who's filled a 3-car garage with 8-tracks. I think we can all agree they're obsolete, and there isn't even a multi-billion dollar, soon-to-IPO company promoting them.

[edited by: eelixduppy at 9:52 pm (utc) on Feb. 18, 2009]