Comments on: 10 Years of Dmoz ODP: Humans Still Do it Better

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:04:13 +0000

It’s really too bad that Google and other search engines actually value DMOZ. It’s such a pathetic excuse for an open source directory. It’s surely one of the most closed directory on the internet. The fact that it relies on editors means that those editors absolutely determine what websites deserve to be listed in a directory – hardly open source. Moreover, many websites never make it into a directory because so many sub directories have no editors at all. Submitting websites is often fruitless, and you might wait years before your website is added to the directory – or it might never be added. DMOZ is a sad excuse for a directory no matter how you look at it – and instances of abuse and blackmail by editors only serves to demonstrate that DMOZ is NOT an open source directory at all. I hope that search engines stop relying on DMOZ, and discredit it as so many developers and webmasters have.

By: webmaster blog

webmaster blog — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:41:27 +0000

thank you.

DMOZ is not listing my sites. :(

By: Calipers

Calipers — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:45:26 +0000

I have submitted my site for many times, but my site still not be listed on DMOZ now.

By: Webmaster

Webmaster — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:37:35 +0000

I used Dmoz…but it adds website very late..

If any one can tell about it?

By: Uknown

Uknown — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:06:15 +0000

I personally edit at DMOZ, and the editors are very kind. I get along with them every day with no issues.

@frank It all depends. I personally edit them as I get them, and do not put one at the bottom of the list just because I don’t like it. It can take more then a year, but if it has taken longer odds are you will not get listed. (This is my own personal opinion.)

The thing is that there are many categories with over 1,000 unreviewed sites, and it takes a LONG time to get through them all. I still see some from other years on there, and are still unreviewed.

The best tip I can give is find the lowest level category that has one more more editors listed at the bottom. Why? Because if there is an editor on that level, and if it’s the bottom most level, then the editor(s) will likely have less strain on them, and have more time to submit the site.

Remember, this is just my opinion, and is far from official. Good Luck DMOZ!

By: makrhod

makrhod — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:43:21 +0000

The concerns expressed in the previous comments have been addressed so many times in so many places that only a brief response is required here, as my birthday present to DMOZ. :-)
1. DMOZ is not a listing service, and editors find sites wherever they choose. The pool of suggestions from webmasters is nothing more than a place volunteers can look if they feel like it, but it is not a priority.
2. Many vague and unsubstantiated claims of corruption are made by webmasters who feel angry that DMOZ is not a free listing service. However, any *real* evidence of editorial abuse should be reported ( http://report-abuse.dmoz.org/ ) immediately, with full details, and is taken very seriously indeed. Such reports are confidential, and read and investigated by more than one meta/admin. Editors found to be abusive are permanently removed.
Happy Birthday ODP!

By: Wallace

Wallace — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:31:17 +0000

DMOZ is damaged by the editors,
a part of these editors receive money from webmasters for a listing,
check out the digital point DMOZ sub-forum,
lot of bad guys reveal their identity.

By: China Business Watch

China Business Watch — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:31:39 +0000

I use DMOZ myself. Some guys may doubt the necessity of DMOZ, but from my own experience and from the limitations of knowledge discovery using seach engines, DMOZ are good for at least two things: tt�s a good starting point for newscomes to find something on the net; and it is a good suppplement to search engines for knowledge discovery .
i wish DMOZ well!

By: frank

frank — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:18:19 +0000

I like DMOZ a lot but the only issue I have and which i dont like at all is that i really dont manage to get listed into it. i have tried a couple of time but to no avail. i know that it takes a while to get listed but…is it possible that it takes more than a year? besides i dont think that my site is not “good enough” for DMOZ…can anyone tell me how long it takes to get listed?