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The Open Directory
Project: The Republic of the World Wide Web
Even as search engine technology makes great strides in providing
useful and relevant search results to the public via complex
mathematical formulas, the "human touch" is still
very important to people, as is evident by the continuing success
of the Open Directory Project, owned by Netscape Inc. ( An AOL
owned company ).
Founded on the tradition of the "open source" revolution
( whereby the flow of information is always open to the public
and any source information is provided free of charge ), DMOZ
maintains its original declaration to become the definitive
catalog of the web based on the idea of a republic:
"Instead of fighting the explosive growth of the Internet,
the Open Directory provides the means for the Internet to
organize itself. As the Internet grows, so do the number of
net-citizens. These citizens can each organize a small portion
of the web and present it back to the rest of the population,
culling out the bad and useless and keeping only the best
content...
"The Open Directory follows in the footsteps of some
of the most important editor/contributor projects of the 20th
century. Just as the Oxford English Dictionary became the
definitive word on words through the efforts of a volunteers,
the Open Directory follows in its footsteps to become the
definitive catalog of the Web."
- quote from the dmoz.org website
The idea of volunteering and maintaining specific categories
for a web directory was, and to this day still is, extremely attractive
to a wide audience, and the Open Directory Project quickly became
the largest human edited directory of websites in the world. Attaining
a prominent listing in the ODP also became very attractive to
budding webmasters, and remains a very important consideration
in search engine optimization to this day, primarily due to the
strong dmoz-google partnership. The free DMOZ data feed is used
by thousands of websites across the globe, and serves as the sole
data source for google.com directory listings.
Getting listed in DMOZ is dependent upon:
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