Once listed how long to show up in search?

[teddy]

I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question as it concerns the status of our submission.

Can anyone tell me how long it takes for a site, once listed in the index, to show up in a search of the site?

We have a site College Park Toronto which has been listed in the index http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/Canada/Ontario/Localities/T/Toronto/Business_and_Economy/Real_Estate/

for 3 weeks or so and still does not show up in a search.

Is this normal?

thank you

[hutcheson]

Dunno nothin' about normal. (We're in the middle of massive site rearrangements and hardware changes, and who knows what all.) But it is what it is.

 

And it really doesn't matter very much -- nobody but you will ever look for it here. In fact, hardly any public users can get to ODP search right now anyway. (If you like, you can tell _us_ when it updates. But we probably won't care.)

[teddy]

I thought the servers were having some problems. Any idea how long the situation will exist?

[dfy]

We're expecting search updates to start up again some time next month. These upgrades aren't trivial, so it may take longer if things don't work as planned. Once they start again, we're expecting the search updates to go back to once a week.

[Alucard]

Just a few comments about searching - you didn't specify which search you were looking at - if you mean the ODP search function, then that's really just a convenience tool, rather than something intended to be comprehensive.

 

If you are referring to others sites which use ODP data for searches, then it's not something we have much control over. most of them use the so-called RDF dump of the database, and there have been many problems with that due to the sevrer issues which have been well-documented elsewhere.

 

This is an ODP editor forum, and as such, or main concern is to maintain the Directory. If the URL you are interested in is listed in the correct category, then there's really nothing an editor can do to help. As this forum is run by the volunteer ODP editors, and is not an official staff-run entity, that's about as much as we can say.

 

Sorry we can't give you the answers you need.