dmoz.org

dmoz.org is like a socialist version of Yahoo. It's built by volunteers, who aren't paid- and the result is a labour of love (labour, get it? sorry...) which provides accurate, ad-free searching. This struck me as a really good idea. We all need search engines, but ads can be a real waste of time. Also I've noticed that AltaVista etc. seem to carry some very out of date results, as well as some which are totally irrelevant. Worse still, I've found many-a-site which hasn't appeared in AltaVista, or Lycos etc. at all. [1]Design The first thing you notice about the site is it's simplicity. It's design is ...

Dmoz.org is the home of the Open Directory Project, ODP for short. Very few people seem to be aware of this site, even though almost everyone has indirectly used it. The ODP is the largest human-edited directory, their motto being 'Human's do it better'. It contains more than 2million recommended, hand-picked links. The ODP's main function is supporting many of the largest search engines in the world, such as lycos, netscape and AOLsearch to name just a few. You'll notice that often a link appears in a catagory style when you search for generic things like places for instance. These are often provided by the ODP. ...

A few words for anyone with a web site to promote. There are no shortage of reviews of this site from the users perspective, so here's some information for people who might want to use it for promotion purposes. You have got to list you site on dmoz - its free, and it is one of the biggest out there. There are many other directories and search engines drawing on this resouce, so a good listing will do wonders for your net presence. The process of getting listed is very easy - go to the category that best fits your site, work through the sub catogeries, click on "add URL" then you get a form to fill in. When writing your site description, ...