awcabot - 12:57 pm on May 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

I do not think it is based on DMOZ taxonomy.

This has beeen recently implemented, or rather, I noticed it just recently when Alltheweb crawled most of my site (I did not even know I had a site 775 page big - mostly old forum postings). I think that there is an algorithm that checks what words appear to come in "clusters" or groups from within each site.

Some specific examples from my site

year, camping, heard (3)

There is no way that these could have come a DMOZ taxonomy, but Fast can find these three words in some of my pages, therefore an attempt to find a theme to site. I suppose that the less clusters a site has, the more targeted (or narrow) it's scope.

Webmasterworld clusters are:

yahoo, help & tutorials, promotion (6) search engine submitting, internet, uk (5) server side, internet, programming (4) tips, resources, internet marketing (4) google, search engines, searching (4) registrering og positionering, internet, edb (4) development, macintosh, systems (3) cloaking, promotion, web design & development (3) webmaster resources, web design, internet (3) chats & forums, writers resources, arts (3) log analysis, internet, software (3) looksmart, grub, acquired (3) webmasterworld forums index, search engines (3)

these are almost all synonyms (except to us that is :) ) therefore can give an idea of what webmasterworld is all about, without having to actually visit the site. Note that this is different than a list of keywords from the site, but rather terms that often appear together.