DMOZ survey : Help needed

[amkaptein]

Hello,

 

I am a PhD student, and I am doing research on whether DMOZ can be used when searching on the web. I need some volunteers to categorize queries into DMOZ categories. It would be great to have some users in my study that have used DMOZ before.

The survey takes between one and one and a half hour and is done over the web. On the webpage: http://home.uva.nl/a.m.kaptein/index.html you can find instructions and a training task. If you are willing to participate, please let me know by sending a mail to a.m.kaptein@uva.nl . You will then be assigned to one of the versions of the survey.

 

Thank you.

 

Kind regards,

 

Rianne Kaptein

[crowbar]

The ODP (DMOZ) isn't really a search engine, but a Directory that provides data to search engines. We collect and organize data.

 

Our search is intended more as a search for categories within the Directory, I think. The Google Directory is a mirror of DMOZ.

 

Though the Directory isn't really a destination site (in my opinion), but a provider of data, it is sometimes very helpful to visit one of our categories to see similar topical or geographic sites gathered in one place as our main focus is not on providing a listing service for site owners, but building useful categories for the web surfer.

 

Everything we do is with the web surfer in mind and what will benefit them. Our titles and descriptions speak directly to the web surfer, rather than being written for search engine optimization. We want to tell the reader what the site is and what can be found on the site, so they can decide if it's the type of site they want to visit. The objective is to save the reader (web surfer) time in their search.

 

How our data gets used and delivered is a search engine function. I personally use Google in my searches, they do a very nice job of it.