Is Dmoz Really Back? Death Of The Odp - Dmoz Down
January 1, 2007
On December 18 2006, a new announcement on the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org) website states that editing functions have been restored, prompting a bunch of top SEO bloggers to comment on the return of DMOZ. Lets examine what’s really back and if dmoz will survive or if this new development just prolongs their slow demise.
Currently DMOZ editors can log into their accounts (the ones who didn’t quit from the extended downtime and move on to more valuable projects) and add new sites. All of their editor data including notes, comments, and the queue of submitted sites to be reviewed has been lost.
The submit URL feature on the directory is still down. So editors have to search Google and manually add sites they find valuable, one by one. The editors who were banned, who stopped contributing to or who quit dmoz all together are still listed as active in their former categories and still have profile pages. The number on the front page of dmoz (74,719 editors) most certainly takes these into account and is grossly inaccurate.
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