rfgdxm1 - 10:59 pm on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

>if google wants a directory as the basis
of their crawl, they should fund one from
their coffers.

Why? Even if a site hasn't managed to get in the ODP because it is still waiting in the queue, odds are if the site is any good that it'll have a link from at least one site listed in the ODP. Why would Google want to pay to achieve what they want when they can just instead crawl dmoz.org for free?