Has Google Dropped ODP?

I was just on the Google search page and do not find the directory listed in any of their searches.

Is it finally the end for the ODP in Google? They have not updated in 2 years and I do not see a link to it. If I am missing it, please let me know. On the main page is searches for Web, Images, Video, News, Maps, Gmail. Under the more drop down is blogs, books, calendar, documents, finance - but no directory.

 

Are you looking for this : http://directory.google.com/

Try directory google as search string.

Or try : http://www.google.ca/intl/en/options/

It has directory link there.

Or are you talking about dmoz is dropped ?

 

Hey skunky. It took me forever to find it about a week or so ago. It's still there, Google just doesn't link to it on any of the main pages. I had to search around to even find the site/map and then I finally found a link to the directory. This is the link: http://directory.google.com/

Once I finally found it, I bookmarked it so I could check it periodically.

 

I was wondering the same thing awhile back.

 

haven't updated in 2 years? I got 2 sites accepted in June alone, it just takes time. Submit and forget, and if u don't have a quality website -- forget or become an editor i guess

 

I searched for a few terms and got DMOZ listings in google...though, in some cases I was getting clones to rank higher. Sorry, no examples, I'm too lazy to look again...

DMOZ updates daily, directory.google.com updates never.

 

I was able to find the google directory, that was not the problem. But, I now see that there is no longer a link from their main page. At one time, when I started editing for the ODP, the link to the ODP was right on the main page. It was later moved to the <other> drop down menu. Now, the link is no where to be found.

It took some searching in the Google Tool Bar 'Add Search Type" drop down, but I finally found it. It was not listed under popular or under reference. The only way I was able to find a button was to search for 'directory' and, voila!, there it was, #24 of 24.

 

Wow, I missed that whole thread! Thanks!!

Mom always said "a day later, a dollar short!"

 

You must have missed all those posts from helleborine talking about how Google has buried it's own directory, too. Hmmmm?

 

Sniffing too many skunks?

 

Or maybe it is amour?

 

That's interesting - I found it quite easily from google.co.uk - there is a more link that goes to http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/options/ and the directory is clearly there in alphabetical order. But that more link is not there on google.com and is a drop down list instead. AOL (ODP owners) and Netscape sites all seem to have dropped all reference too.

 

Interesting. Google.ca (Canada) has the old "more" link, but Google.com (USA) has a drop-down menu that does NOT list the Directory. That's a new and good development. That link was the last holdout that mislead rearguarde webmasters into attributing voodoo powers to an ODP link. I can't believe it took so long, but hopefully it will put paid to this persistent myth.

I didn't know that Netscape, and even AOL (!!!) have dropped the ODP, too. Maybe it's time for me to let go!

Google has dropped the ODP. I have to put the date on my calendar, for future anniversary celebrations.

 

I think Google Directory updated its search database recently, btw.

 

The search database is regularly updated, the dmoz descriptions show up in the web search results, but the actual directory DB hasn't been updated since Feb. 2006 as far as I can tell.

 

Ohh, okay cool. haha, didn't know that.

 

My Site has been listed in Dmoz for a long time, but it still hasn't shown up in Google Directory yet, so you could be on top something, I think CReed was spot on with February.

 

The fact that Google hasn't updated its version of the Directory in nearly two years is not in dispute.

Google has now completely removed the Directory from its "more" menu choices in Google USA.

That sends an even stronger message to webmasters at large, and rearguarde SEOs that continue to parrot the 2001 gospel to this day, that DMOZ is falling down the well of oblivion. Stronger than merely neglecting to update the database.

Hopefully it will finally sink in that webmasters should "forget to submit" - DMOZ might be buried before a link approver gets to lay eyes on their submissions. Better spend your time submitting to more responsive directories and exchanging links with fellow webmasters.