RichTC - 10:30 pm on Aug 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

Obviously if your pro dmoz your view is going to be that its useful data for google to pull from.

But if you are of the view that DMOZ is outdated even possibly corrupted data in some areas or you are just a webmaster with a site that falls in an area of the directory that dmoz hasnt had an active editor working on for the last three years then you wont share any possible delight that google would want to use this data what so ever.

Im of the opinion that the google algo was designed and always will be designed to work without any human intervention - Once you get human involvement in how one part of an algorythm works thats when you are heading for trouble so i just cant see this accounting to anything, i think its more likely that its simply a case of the directory hasnt been updated in so long, nows a good a time as any!.

If anything, sites listed in other human edited directory sites should carry the same weight if any. ie Yahoo directory, business.com, joeant, etc, etc dmoz is no different, its just another directory?

Oh and one final point, if google wanted to use directory data in its algo then it would employ a team to build one thats the only way in my mind it could be 100% sure that the data would be spot on correct but the fact is that it doesnt need to and thats because no one uses a directory any longer due to the amount of data now held on the net every one uses search.

Time will tell anyway, but i think this talk of google updating the directory with the old dmoz data for some other purpose than simply just "updating its directory" will amount to a damp squib

Cheers