IanTurner - 11:46 pm on Feb 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

BeeDeeDubbleU - I agree with a lot of what you say a poor directory is really of little use to anyone and I agree that Google (and other search engines should remove the chaff)

However the real point of this question was more to identify those qualities in a directory that Google (and other SEs) will use to identify a quality directory.

claus - I like the idea of writing descriptions for sites from scratch or at least seriously editing user submissions. This would immediately increase the site quality and benefit users.

pageoneresults - I agree that a pure directory business model is probably DOA these days, what I am trying to do is identify what makes a directory have that little bit extra, which will make it a valuable resource both from a user and an SE point of view.