Status of URL change for www.cwav.com?

tharvey · Mar 17, 2004

I submitted a URL change request for our listing in the following category:

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Hardware/Test_Equipment/

from www.cwav.com to www.usbee.com

in early February.

The description, title and location are just fine, but since we have changed over to our new URL, we need the updated listing active as soon as possible.

Since no updates have been made, any status would be very much appreciated.

tharvey · Mar 18, 2004

More info:

We originally had www.cwav.com as our main site (included company and product info and services details), and www.usbee.com for our online store (of course to buy our products).

We have now moved all pages onto the www.usbee.com site to make it cleaner and have now changed all www.cwav.com pages to point to the new location.

This is why we need to change the URL.

Anyone know the status?
Thanks

Alucard · Mar 18, 2004

This update has been approved. You did a good job of flagging the new site on the old one, leaving us in no doubt of what was going on. Thank you.

tharvey · Mar 18, 2004

Thank you!

What delay should I expect from approval to it being live on dmoz.org?

Thanks again!

spectregunner · Mar 18, 2004

It takes a week to ten days for the DMOZ public server farm to be completely updated. Prior to that, it is spotty as individual machines are updated.

When the users pick up the data is the questoin that no one can answer.

tharvey · Jun 21, 2004

Problem between Google and DMOZ for our link

We (www.usbee.com) are now included in the DMOZ directory
(http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Hardware/Test_Equipment/)
and are showing up in the Google Directory listings as well.

However the listing in Google shows no PageRank icon to the left as other listings do (even though we have a PR of 6 in our Google toolbar).

Contacting Google, they sent the below response to me, indicating that it is a problem between DMOZ and Google.

Is there any more information on why this happened and when it should be fixed from the dmoz side?

Google writes:

Thank you for your note. We are aware of the problem that you are
reporting. As you may know, the Google Directory is built on work done by
the Open Directory Project, a network of thousands of volunteers managed
by Netscape. Please be assured that we are actively working with the ODP
to find a solution.

We appreciate your patience during this process, and thank you for taking
the time to contact us.

Regards,
The Google Team

Original Message Follows:
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Subject: Why is www.usbee.com have no page rank on directory listing?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:04:22 -0700

We have a listing in the google directory (www.usbee.com) in the category
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Hardware/Test_Equipment/

but our listing has no page rank symbol on the left like all the others.
But, when we go to our page, it shows a page rank of 6 in our Google
toolbar.

Is there a reason why this page rank is not in the directory for us? I
have a feeling that this is why the search for the term "logic analyzer"
has us miserably deep in the pile.

bobrat · Jun 21, 2004

Since we are not Google and have no control of what they do, we cannot answer Google questions in this forum.

Sorry.

[I'm not sure why they say they are working with ODP on the problem. Your site is listed in ODP, and there are no technical problems I'm aware of that prevent Google copying that information. That form letter is being sent to everyone. From what I see Google has a lot of problems right now, that are nothing to do with ODP listings, but that is my personal opinion, not a statement from ODP. It's search is broken, it can't find several of my sites that have been there for years. I don't like the fact that Google is blaming ODP for this.]

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