DMOZ has turned into Yahoo

"Yahoo has been criticized for being slow to list new sites -- a point that Netscape and NewHoo hope to capitalize on. " - News article about NewHoo purchase

It seems now adays DMOZ has turned into yahoo. DMOZ does a fair job better than Yahoo but it has somewhat turned into the monster it wanted to fight. However, it is a free service and you get what you pay for.

[apeuro]

It's true that to the individual submitter it seems like it takes forever to get listed. However between 2500 and 3000 sites a day are added to the directory. On average around 75,000 sites are added to the directory a month. That's far from being chump-change.

[Edited]

I actually took a look at the statistics. In the past week 23,810 sites were added to the directory. That averages 3400 sites a day.

Wow, that aint that bad then but look at theses stats..

Arts has 75529 unreviewed

Business has 185516 unreviewed

Computers has 90727 unreviewed

Games has 12152 unreviewed

[qbp]

DMOZ is a volunteer-driven project, hence the way it may seem slower. Editing is not a full-time job, and many if not most have another job and all have a life. Editing is not the highest priority in people's lives, no matter how high it is. This is unlike Yahoo, where the editors are paid employees of Yahoo. At DMOZ we are all volunteers and we do our best to give you the best human-edited directory that we can. Sometimes life and work gets in the way, but apeuro shows that our stats aren't half bad.

[dstanovic]

Ohboydmoz,

I have been editing for only a week. If most categories “unreviewed” are anything like the categories I edit (which I’m sure they are), those numbers mean very little. The numbers you quoted on the unreviewed would drop dramatically if you take out the following:

1.duplicate submissions (honest/dishonest)
2.sites that do not belong in the category
3.sites that are trying to get listings in every possible category whether they belong there or not.


I spend more time working through the above than actually listing sites that belong in the categories I edit. It’s a shame people spam the directory as it only hurts the legitimate site submissions [img]/images/icons/frown.gif[/img]

My 2-cents

The short answer is...We deal in quality, not quantity.

[kujanomiko]

My eternal example of what dstanovic said:

I once spent more than an hour deleting affiliate sites from a high spam cat in Computers. And those, unfortunately, were just the obvious, like http://widgets.com/affiliate.cgi?affid=63564f.

It ended up that the cats unreviewed was cut in half by that. *sigh*

[hutcheson]

I read the last post and at first thought kujanomiko was quoting me. Suffice it to say that in most weeks, there are several days of which I _could_ say something like that.

yahoo use the ODP data, how can the chicken turn into the egg?

[kujanomiko]

The only way Yahoo uses the ODP is in the way that Google uses it, and Yahoo uses Google for their search. There is no direct usage.

botttom line do you want credibility get listed at dmoz.
show me one person who paid $250 to get listed and didnt
thats what separates dmoz from yahoo and thats why yahoo
is in the toilet and uses Google based on domz as soon as dmoz starts charging $250 then it will have turned

Did this thread really need bumping?

[ollie1a]

I may be missing something... but look at the new addition counts! http://dir.yahoo.com/new/

Sorry but Yahoo has NOTHING on us!

[alnilam]

Not likely. Yahoo still has blank descriptions sometimes. At least that never happens.

[dstanovic]

alnilam,

<<At least that never happens.>>

Don't ever say "never" <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Dave