Offering Help in automating the DMOZ

Hi

We designed a software - we call it SSG-KM (Knowledge Management from SSGINDIA) - as a part of its jobs, it will do the work of automatic listing, indexing and categorization if a list of URL is submitted - which DMOZ can use.

If you find it useful, we can add other features if you want for DMOZ

Please let us know if you want to test it.

Regards
sabya

About the Open Directory Project

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

Ah, we don't cavil at more powerful tools for humans to use: I still remember when they introduced the "power editing mode"' -- "like a chainsaw for spam", they said--truly. For awhile I went around looking for spam-ridden categories to chainsaw.

I'm not sure, though, what part of the ODP process you envision this tool helping with. The biggest challenge we have is, of course, weeding out spam. Do you think your tool could be trained to spot, say, MFA sites or affiliate portals or vstore order-taker sites?

If so, this might be an interesting exercise. Write a web front end that (1) took a search request, (2) ran it through Google (or Yahoo, if Google gets sticky about automated searches), (3) categorized the results and marked the likely spam.

If something like that really worked, I suspect it might be likely to get quite a few users -- probably not just editors.

Of course, if it really worked, and you made it public, eventually spammers would be using it to test their latest random-keyword-stuffing algorithms, and it would stop working.

Again, I'm not sure exactly what the tool can do, and it may be that none of this is practical.