Ubbi.com

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For those interested in Spanish-speaking web surfers.....or just to get another link pointing to your site ;)

[Sorry for the clutter and brief info below but I'm short on time]

Ubbi.com

Argentina - Brazil - Mexico

Based in Argentina

Haven't looked into it much but there is a lot of publicity[Pop-ups] going around to give it recognition. Must be fairly new site since I have not, nor has anyone else, seen it before. Seems to be backed by a major ISP and national Argentine newspaper as well.

Contains what appears to be ODP/Google directory data but looks incomplete at the moment under a lot of categories. As well as their crawler-based DB.

There is a submission page and it seems that they review the sites with their own staff. After submission a confirmation page is sent by e-mail describing that the submitted site will be reviewed in the next few days.

Results are a mixture of both category listings and Google results.

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Thanks Msgraph, for posting this. For those that are interesting in submittin, here is the link:
[buscador.ubbi.com.ar...]

I couldn't figure out if they have a dirctory as well as displaying results from Google. Do you know how this works?

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Here is what I found so far. Hope it helps.

Sólo en español -- Only In Spanish search

Keyword example: fotografía (photography)

These results match up to those in Google when using the "Search Only In Spanish" option. The only difference is how they label the category names.

When a directory-based site is displayed in the results here is how they are shown:

Ubbi.com
Categorías > Sitios en otros idiomas > Español > Artes > Cine

Google.com
Category: World > Español > Artes > Cine

En cualquier idioma -- In any language

Keyword example: fotografía (photography)

The results displayed here match up to Google's "Search an any language" setting

En Argentina -- In Argentina

I can't find a similar match up of results anywhere in Google or Dmoz. Even when I looked under the categories of....

Dmoz: World: Español: Artes: Música

Google: World > Español > Artes > Música

I wonder if they just license some of the World/Español category and add to it with whatever sites they accept through their own submission process. The submitted sites have to go somewhere so I guess this is the place. After they are accepted, they will only appear in the En Argentina section.

Maybe someone can step in who is more familiar with how non-English Google and/or Dmoz powered-sites are set up and how it reflects data that is mixed in "locally."