Quick Question regarding DMOZ use?

[peterpil19]

Hi everyone!

 

I was just interested to know what the most popular way the DMOZ directory is used?

 

Is it users actually conducting searches/browsing from within http://www.dmoz.org, or is it Google (and other search enginges) using the directory somehow as a base in their own queries or something else!

 

Personally, I have used it, because the directory structure is obviously more structured than query results from a search engines.

 

For the purposes of tying this question into the correct topic, I have just applied the other day for an editor position. My aim is to not come back as a sore loser if/once I get rejected:) Rejection is always hard to take...

 

Keep up the good work. With thousands of editors, it would be interesting to calculate a figure for man hours that have gone into the directory.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Peter P

[windharp]

I was just interested to know what the most popular way the DMOZ directory is used?

To be honest, we don't know. And - since we don't have control over our data users - we will never know. We do know that we needed a number of caching servers to serve the public, but a lot of those visitors are actually bots of different kinds. IMHO most visitos go to our data users (which is fine, because we could not manage that amount of visitors)

 

For the purposes of tying this question into the correct topic,

Sorry to have spoiled that attempt, but I think it fits "Using ODP Data" a lot better.

 

it would be interesting to calculate a figure for man hours that have gone into the directory.

Yes, that would be an interesting figure. A guess on the time I spent on the ODP would be a medium number of 30 minutes each day since I joined the ODP in 2001.