It has long been a topic of contention that DMOZ is corrupt. Personally, I thought that the corruption began as a result of AOL buying Netscape. Netscape had purchased DMOZ recently. Google and AOL both had a common enemy: Microsoft. They seemed to have a natural relationship. AOL and Google began many alliances including Google's strong endorsement of DMOZ. DMOZ, by a weird coincidence), had tens of thousands of links to CNN pages, making the purchase of Netscape/DMOZ the largest link purchase transaction in history. Of course when a link was placed in DMOZ, a link would soon appear in Google's Directory. For years, Google turned a blind eye to DMOZ's corrupt practices. According to some news reports in December of 2005, MSN (Microsoft), will soon be providing search results to AOL instead of Google. I wonder what happens to DMOZ as a result? Will Google begin to use a different source for their Google directory? Will Google continue to ignore DMOZ's corrupt practices? Will Google automatically provide a institutional bias to benefit the sites listed in DMOZ? Will the corruption of DMOZ continue? AOL and Netscape are now using Google in or about late October, 2006 McAfee SiteAdvisor, a safe browsing service, collated the new numbers as a follow-up to a May 2006 survey of several thousand keyword searches that found 5% of the links served up by Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com send people to sites that can infect computers with malware or plague users with spam. Last month, the same searches linked to 12% fewer sites judged risky by SiteAdvisor; overall, 4.4% of the sites returned by the five search engines were tagged with red or yellow warnings by SiteAdvisor in November 0f 2006. View Story Search engine professionals know that the vast majority of these search engines have a very low usage rate and will drive hardly any traffic your way. In fact, it's only a handful of search engines that drive the majority of traffic from search engines to websites. Some of the most important search engines, probably accountings for more than 90% of the search engine market, are: Google http://www.google.com/ Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com/ Inktomi Inktomi is now merged with yahoo.com (to submit Inktomi thought the back door at: http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm[B]) MSN[/B] http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx Teoma Teoma is now merged with Ask.com AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/ AOL and Netscape are using Google results
Did they ever use dmoz for search results? what does having google as search engine have to do with dmoz
DMOZ, also known as The Open Directory Project (ODP), is a large, categorized directory of websites and pages, which is staffed by volunteers. Every website and page that is added to the directory has to be manually reviewed before it is included. Being listed in the directory is free. A listing in DMOZ creates two significant links into a website - one from DMOZ (Google spiders DMOZ just like any other site) and one from the Google directory. Both of these usually have decent PageRank. Then add the links from the thousands of small sites that have downloaded and use the DMOZ directory, and you can see why it is usually quite beneficial for a website to be listed in DMOZ. Simply being listed in DMOZ can take a website from a Toolbar PageRank value of 3 to 4, and even from 4 to 5. Not many people actually use DMOZ for searches in the same way that Yahoo! is used, so the directory itself is of little value in generating traffic. However, its data can be freely downloaded, and any website, however small, can use it. One not so small website that downloads and uses DMOZ's data is Google. In fact, Google's directory is nothing less than the downloaded DMOZ directory. This has some significant effects for websites that are listed in DMOZ. PageRank is an integral part of Google's ranking algorithm, and higher PageRank helps towards higher rankings. The PageRank within a website is increased by pages from other sites linking to it, and the higher the PageRank of the pages that link to it, the better it is for the receiving site. Google relies on many sources for gaining information and further improvements for its search engine. One of these resources is DMOZ. This is known as The Open Directory Project (ODP). This huge directory is powered and expanded by humans. It seems unbelievable that a directory of this size and importance must still be indexed and managed manually but it is. What exactly is the DMOZ project? It is actually a huge directory, with a large database of indexed documents and websites. Many directories and search engines including Google use its listings database. AOL and Netscape handles all the decisions about content, use and operation for DMOZ. Until now AOL and Netscape in late October 2006 are now using Google. However, Yahoo Directory now supports the Open Directory Project (ODP) DMOZ. See this page http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000368.html