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That's just one site, looks like there are hundreds or even thousands just like it.
Since google treats an authority link like gold now days wouldn't it be smart for them to count them all?
Boomer
How is it that a site can be in DMOZ for years but can't be found in the Google Directory?
Are you talking about the Google Directory or the Google web search? it makes a difference!
The Google Directory is basically just a copy of the DMOZ directory which might be up to a few months out of date. If a site has been in DMOZ for years, it should be in the Google Directory.
If you're talking about the Web search, are you sure the site isn't there? Have you tried a "site:your.domain.here" search? That should turn up all of your pages that Google knows about. Maybe you simply don't rank highly for whatever keywords you're searching for, because of low PR, poor on-page optimization, or whatever. Or maybe your site uses frames, which can prevent Google from seeing your inner pages. Or maybe the pages are dynamically generated with session ID's in the URL, which Google avoids crawling.
If you search for DomainName.com in DMOZ these sites are listed. Do the same search in directory.google.com and they are not listed - and, they don't show up in the tool bar as directory listings either.
Some of the sites have been in DMOZ for a very long time. It's like Google is missing whole chuncks of DMOZ data...
This has got to hurt their "athority link" theory not to mention people who are rightfully in the directory.
Boomer
This has got to hurt their "athority link" theory not to mention people who are rightfully in the directory.
No one is "rightfully in the directory".
While it probably was some sort of glitch, every site owner has a right to decide who they are going to link to. It would not surprise me at all if google were to remove any penalized sites from the directory too.
Boomer
Have you actually gone to the same place in the google directory as in DMOZ to check if they are there, or did you only search for them? Is the site the only thing missing, or is it the entire category?
Is it only with this update of the directory, or has it been this way through a couple of updates?
I'm still betting on it just being a glitch that you will just have to wait out.
With the possible exception of non-english pages that haven't caught up with the formatting thing yet, there aren't meaningful differences between the Google Directory and Dmoz.
If you search for DomainName.com in DMOZ these sites are listed. Do the same search in directory.google.com and they are not listed
Theres your problem. The DMOZ and Google search directory function are set up differently. The DMOZ search function is more aimed at finding categories. If a site does not show up in the DMOZ search, it does not necessarily mean its not listed - just drill down to the relevant category ... you have jumped to a wrong conclusion based on what you are seeing in a search result. Directories are meant for browsing and search engines for searching.
As stated above, if you dril down to any category and compare Google Directory to DMOZ, they are pretty much the same (Google Directory is currently a month or so behind DMOZ - not years)
Boomer
