IITian - 6:27 pm on Apr 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

zgb999
>I seldom clicked on a dmoz category link BUT I looked at it as
- sign of quality
- help to see where the site belongs to (e.g. was it in a regional category or in a subject category, what category related to the keyword...)

Agree. To reduce bitterness from webmasters who are not listed in DMOZ, if would be nice if Google talks to a few more reputed human-edited directories (Yahoo! ...) and for pages not in DMOZ, display link to categories in those directories with the name of the directory too showing.

On a related topic, if Google uses similar click through results to determine the relevancy of its serps, similar problems arise. I title my pages so that I count myself successful if the surfers get to look at my title and brief description, even if they don't click my page. (Alternative is to deceive the surfers by titling it differently, let them click to my page and then give them the message. At this stage I don't want to do this.)