Are there "traffic" issues?

On many, many occaisions during the last two weeks I have noticed a "The page cannot be displayed" result on my searches via DMOZ and this concerns me. The same result does not come from ( any of the 'popular' ) engines during like-kind searches.

Are there issues of manpower, traffic, hardware, competition that might be noted?

Thx.

I haven't seen that happen lately. Sometimes the search servers get a little overloaded. Nothing to worry about.

The public ODP site-search servers are heavily loaded. There's, of course, no comparision between several Suns (even high-end models) and the multi-thousand-processor server farms that, say, Google runs. dmoz.org isn't a search engine at all--the design expectation is that users will typically use one of the hosts. (After all, Google Directory Search is much better than ODP site-search for most purposes.) Automated searches by large-scale mass spammers have occasionally been a problem, as indeed they are for most sysadmins of large sites.

There's no competition issue -- anyone can download the RDF (just like the ODP indexer does) and set up their own search server, and ODP editors will probably promote and use it -- gladly!

Manpower isn't an issue, the searches are pretty much automated. (The ODP never went the Google PigeonRank route.)

Q's A'd ...

<nothing to worry about - HAH That's one of my best attributes!>

Thx for efficiency all, appreciated much.

Thanks, Q's have been A'd. Been wanting to offer assistance w/DMOZ for years; now in position to offer-up, if <they> will have me.

Becoming "web active" again after lonnng sabaticle(?) was having some apprehension about adding the dmoz ref. to my client sites. They're now doomed: they'll all get it!