UKNM: Bigger than yahoo?

[Stewart Dean]

On the rough subject of search engines is everyone aware of the open

directory project? Being a savy bunch I imagine many of you are but just

incase some arnt.


  The open directory project was once called newhoo and now goes under the

very uncatchy title Dmoz (some one needs to take these guys aside and talk

about branding) and can be found at www.dmoz.org. It sits along side the

Mozilla project as, effectively, an open source directory.


The directory is free to use (that is put on your own site) and lists over

a million sites maintained by vonunteers. The result is sometimes mixed but

often sites are far more upto date than Yahoo. Getting listed is also much

easier.


Sites that now feature the open directory include the new look Alta Vista

(nice), Netscapes Netcenter, HotBot (Wired) and Lycos. So the overall

coverage is pretty huge.  It also makes more sense than maintaining your

own links page - just sign up and help maintain a collective list.


If you want people to visit it's a good place to start.


Cheers


Stewart Dean

www.webslave.dircon.co.uk 


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