Updates of Dmoz's Search Index - could be Improved

Search database last updated on: Sat Sep 28 00:54:00 PDT 2002

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A Dmoz listings will often help your Google keyword ranking, thereby increasing your rankings on:

Yahoo
Aol
Netscape
Earthlink etc...

The above message wasat the bottom of every search result on Dmoz for WEEKS... until Dec 4th.

Perhaps, sites had not been added, or have not credited by Google Yet.


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Search database last updated on: Tue Dec 3 16:22:30 PST 2002

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Dmoz has just updated their databases after over 2 months.
This will affect some keyword rankings for their recently added sites on Google and Google's directory.

The search hasn't been updated for a while, because there has not been a working RDF dump produced. This has been the topic of discussion in numerous threads including the one at: http://www.resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&amp;Board=data&amp;Number=13239 . The problem is known, is being looked into, and will take time to fix as it takes a week for each run to confirm whether the fix has worked or whether there are further problems. Google use to take a copy of the RDF once per month or so, other places are still running on copies that they downloaded absolutely years ago. Many tens of thousands of sites have been added to the ODP during the time that the RDF has not been working. It will all flow eventually. You'll just have to be patient.

By the way, the update for 2002-Dec-03 did fail again: [ http://dmoz.org/rdf/tags.html ].