Search database update?

I have a listing for stuffwithnames.com which an editor updated and place ain a new category in early November. It's been almost three months since the update and the old listing still shows up in any search. Why is this? The caption on the Dmoz site says the search database was updated on Jan 20th. I don't get it, will my correct listing ever show up?
 

giz

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The January 20th date is a glitch. The last update to search was truly way back in September last year. The most recent RDF generation failed again on that (2003 January 20th) date, the file has errors. It looks like search has seen that there is a new file, and has updated the "last updated" date, but as there are errors in the file it isn't actually using it, and will not be using it until a good RDF is pushed out. A new RDF is attempted approximately weekly, but other processes or restarts can add a few days sometimes..
 

Wow, September!!?? Seems strange they wouldn't have something like that fixed by now.
 

giz

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There are multiple problems that have occurred but it seems that some sort of bug may have been introduced when some upgrades were done back in September. It has taken a lot of work to trace the origins of the bugs, and to clean up the data that the bugs affected; there are nearly 4 million web sites, and over 400 000 categories where problems may lurk. Since the RDF takes a week to produce it has been a long process of - run RDF - fail - look for problem - fix problem - run RDF for another week - fail - and then the same thing over and over, again and again. It looked very close around Christmas, then some other problem cropped up and clobbered it again. There are multiple threads about the problem here on Resource Zone, as well as in many external fora and boards.
 
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