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3 DMOZ entries can be bought for $1500 it seems!

Discussion in 'ODP / DMOZ' started by Michael, Jan 18, 2006.

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    I discovered this yesterday and blogged about it here DMOZ Deal if you are interested in this sort of sleeze :)

    - Michael
     
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    Not knowing what the urls are, there really isn't much that could be commented on. As far as $1500 for three listings in a directory of free listings goes: I have ocean front property in Indiana that I will sell cheap :)

    Seriously though, if the sites aren't listable in the first place then even if a corrupt editor listed were to list them they would be removed and any fool who would pay $1500 to someone to speed up listing listable sites is just plain crazy.

    My guess is exactly what you said
    I think you nailed it. And thanks for the link to the dmoz abuse report thread in the blog!
     
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    that's pretty expensive for a free directory...but it may be worthed in the long run...if they don't get deleted
     
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    Quite amusing that the two listed bidders netsmartz.com and qbitsystems.com -- can't even get their own URLs listed in DMOZ.

    (Though a quick glance at qbits' sites, seems it was written by some kind of text generating robot - so they probably have no clue about what DMOZ is anyway)
     
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    :) LOL - I missed that! Well spotted.

    - Michael

     
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    Looks like a scam.
     
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