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Originally Posted by Birdie
Google collect and analyse a lot of data. They would have tested the effects on the global quality of the search results if they give an extra boost to a link from DMOZ (or yahoo) and if they don't. They will know exactly what the effect is on the global quality of the results. It dosen't matter what you or I think; it dosen't matter what the urban myths of SEO forums are; it dosen't matter if a particular site is listed or not ....Google will trust their testing.
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“Global quality of the results” Give me a break.
For Google DMOZ is nothing more than marriage of convenience. Why bother build directory from scratch if they have whole army of slaves’ volunteers working for them for nothing.
If Google care about DMOZ index as much as you think, it would have sites listed in DMOZ on top and we would have first 10 pages or more filled with DMOZ links. But Google made conscious decision not to use DMOZ and keep it around as house pet only because they need one around the house anyway.
No one will deny that if Google drop DMOZ it won’t affect it structure or make even minuscule dent in Google’s existence but it sure will make DMOZ completely insignificant and very wretched place.
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