Reno - 4:40 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am not a software engineer and thus am trying to understand how Google might use a listing in DMOZ in regards to specific websites. So this is a question, not an observation!

Let's say for the sake of a very simple example that Google gives 1 point for every good quality natural one-way link that a site has pointing to it.

But because Google respects the age, scope and authority of DMOZ, they give 1.5 points for a listing there.

The impact of that extra .5 on the overall "point score" of the site is minimal, yet it would hold true that "being listed in ODP helps with search engine scoring".

So for anyone here who understands algorithm construction and suspects that Google may be using DMOZ data, is this simplistic example in the ballpark?

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