Google removing Directories from index

I have been reading that Google is actively de-ranking some directories that it classes as spam sites such as dmoz clones.

Has anyone notice direcotries losing their PR.

More importantly can anyone speculate as to what the factors are that allow Google to decide a directory is spam.

 

Something along the lines of websites that are duplicates with no other content offering to the user other then the duplicate stuff. I was readin that while studying trustrank stuff a while ago.

 

Yep thats about it. But there are also other sites that have been thrown out, then brought back in. We are talking about massive directories here that are NOT DMOZ clones. such as http://www.ezilon.com/ http://www.linketeria.com/sites.directory/zu/ http://dir.whatuseek.com/

There are a few factors as to why Google is removing them, but DMOZ cloning is not it as an absolute.

 

I suppose DMOZ clones are typical duplicate content sites, so there is no additional value for web user in another directory with same content.
GG's target audience are average web users (and not SEO gurus and like-to-be-gurus).

 

This is also being discussed here:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23260

 

My directory and also a dmoz clone is not getting de-inxex by google ... at least for now ... And it's going strong too... the indexed page keeps going up every few days

 

It is only when the number of pages indexed hits a high enough level that the alfo is able to know it is a clone. The trick is to seed using dmoz, then work damn hard to make it unique.

We should not really use this thread if it is beinf discussed elsewhere though. I suggest we all go to the original thread and post there.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23260 ORIGINAL THREAD.