Right category, wrong Web site

My Web site has been listed with OPD for quite some time. Recently, however (April), I changed the name of my business and it's associated URL. I submitted a request to update my listing, but now it seems that everything is all messed up. A search for my new company name, Grow Communication, returns only results that are in no way related to my listing. A search for my old company name, Web-o-Ram-a, returns the old Open Directory site information. A search for Karen Ram returns the same results as the Web-o-Ram-a search. However, the listing in my category, "Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Designers: Freelance: R," is correct (Ram, Karen - Grow Communication).

How can I get my site and category listings to sync up with the orrect information?

Assuming you are talking about ODP search:

1. The ODP search database is not updated in real-time. Note the "search updated" text at the bottom of the page of search results.
2. The search is only an adjunct to the directory. The directory itself is the thing. If the site is correct in the category then it will be correct in the RDF that downstream users use.

If you aren't talking about the search at ODP, we have no control over what other sites do or don't do. You'll have to take it up with them.

wrathchild said:

Assuming you are talking about ODP search:

1. The ODP search database is not updated in real-time. Note the "search updated" text at the bottom of the page of search results.
2. The search is only an adjunct to the directory. The directory itself is the thing. If the site is correct in the category then it will be correct in the RDF that downstream users use.

If you aren't talking about the search at ODP, we have no control over what other sites do or don't do. You'll have to take it up with them.

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Thanks for your reply. And thanks for making me aware of how ODP actually works! I thought it also was a search engine.... I'm not familiar with the "RDF" acronym -- what does it stand for?

I just was thinking, though. If the right site is listed in the right category, then why doesn't that site come up in a search for it by name -- like the old site did?

kram said:

I'm not familiar with the "RDF" acronym -- what does it stand for?

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http://rdf.dmoz.org/

Basically, it's a package of the data contained in a directory so that others (e.g., Google) can use it.

kram said:

If the right site is listed in the right category, then why doesn't that site come up in a search for it by name -- like the old site did?

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Because the search database isn't updated in real time. At the moment, the search database is several weeks out of date. There have also been some issues with search over the last few months. Check some threads in the Bugs & Features forum.

Search will eventually catch up. It's not a particularly important part of http://dmoz.org/ .

wrathchild said:

http://rdf.dmoz.org/

Basically, it's a package of the data contained in a directory so that others (e.g., Google) can use it.


Because the search database isn't updated in real time. At the moment, the search database is several weeks out of date. There have also been some issues with search over the last few months. Check some threads in the Bugs & Features forum.

Search will eventually catch up. It's not a particularly important part of http://dmoz.org/ .

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Thanks for the info. I'll check the Bugs & Features forum for more....