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That's strange.
If these clowns won't give it the respect it deserves they should pass it on to someone who will.
This is defacto public property... not a toy or a play thing for a lazy ignorant selfish corporate.
There must be plenty of takers out there for it, particulalrly SEs. Yes, Google is the obvious candidate, but there are others.
The sooner it finds a worthy home the better.
Nice to see ya on Monday.
at least in the Western US
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To everything, there is a season!
As I said, "To everything. there is a season" ... it may be that the ODP has had its day or it may be that this rather public failure to produce will spur "somebody" to do something about the ODP's current situation.
It smells very similar to the lengthy delays in updating the database which Excite (and others) went through but never managed to recover from.
Google's directory is certainly not the be all and end all which you make it out to be. Ask someone who is not involved with webmasters or SEO's if and how they use the directory. I think you will be surprised how few really give a darn or even know anything about it.
Google's "black eye" is no more than a hiccough IMHO.
It appears that the predictions I made then about implosions are coming true.
Please note that the whole of dmoz.org went off for a short while in the last hour or so. While work is ongoing over the next day or so, I suppose that it is possible that it will be taken offline again if it becomes necessary.
Please note that the whole of dmoz.org went off for a short while in the last hour or so.
The directory is online. It's their forums which are down, and that fact is, from what I understand, announced when you try to enter them.
Also, once would have been enough. :)
