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  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    father_jack

    4 Stars Don't Waste Your Time... 02/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages easy submission, accurate results, links to the other engines and no ads

    Disadvantages Disadvantages results are limited and the design is uninspired

    I discovered dmoz.org through a link on AOL some time ago. It is as search engine, or more accurately, a directory service- indexed entirely by humans. This struck me as an excellent idea. Recently I've noticed that AltaVista etc. seem to carry some very out of date results, as well as some which are totally irrelevant. Worse still, I've found many-a-site which hasn't appeared in AltaVista, or Lycos etc. at all. Therefore, the idea of a huge, volunteer-based way of finding things on the net appealled. DESIGN The first thing you notice about the site is it's simplicity. It's design is ... more
  • 7 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    A_Mcintyre

    4 Stars The grand daddy of web search 05/09/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Human edited with large number of sites.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages sometimes very slow.

    The Open Directory project is the largest human edited web directory on the intermet. The ODP is a very large web directory that is edited and built by volunteers. People choose to volumteer in their spare time to become editors of a specific categories in order to improve the overall directory. No one makes any money from the ODP. The organization was set up as a non profit site almost 5 years ago and has remained that way. The ODP charter makes it impossible for any company to make money from the ownership of the ODP. Many people may ask, what is the point of the ODP? Well good question. The ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    markcollins

    5 Stars The Human Internet 20/04/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Human Edited

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Mostly American sites

    ***THE SITE*** The site I am reviewing is www.dmoz.org - also known as The Open Directory Project, which is a human edited directory. It boasts 384,255 categories, 47,920 editors and 3,304,320 web sites. ***THE DIRECTORY*** Whatever category you click on, you will find hundreds of sites added by the members who also act as editors. The one thing I find is that if you click on one of the categories, you will find yourself looking at mainly American sites, so what I do now is go to our country on the world title at the bottom of the homepage. ***LAYOUT AND DESIGN*** The layout is very simple ... more
  • 21 of 21 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    darrenloud

    5 Stars The Internet's Hidden Treasure 30/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Human-edited, excelent for webmaster listings

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The website is very appealing by design.

    Dmoz.org is the home of the Open Directory Project, ODP for short. Very few people seem to be aware of this site, even though almost everyone has indirectly used it. The ODP is the largest human-edited directory, their motto being 'Human's do it better'. It contains more than 2million recommended, hand-picked links. The ODP's main function is supporting many of the largest search engines in the world, such as lycos, netscape and AOLsearch to name just a few. You'll notice that often a link appears in a catagory style when you search for generic things like places for instance. These are often ... more
  • 9 of 10 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    yhwman

    4 Stars One to browse through 10/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Lots of reliable links

    Disadvantages Disadvantages normal searching is quicker for most things

    Dmoz is less of a search engine and more of a directory. I tend to use it to browse through the categories, rather than searching. And for categories it works well, all the entries are done by humans, more importantly, not by humans involved in making the sites listed. So any entries are going to be accurately described and not just some blind link heading nowhere. Despite all it’s good features, I still don’t tend to use Dmoz much – I can generally find a site with the info I need quicker on google. ... more
  • 3 of 3 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    sammmie_uk

    5 Stars Humans do it better 08/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages quick, good index, human editors, quality of listings

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    dmoz.org is a fantastic directory maintained entirely by volunteers. It has a staggering number of contributors, dwarfing the resources of more well-known directories like Yahoo! It's also known as the Open Directory Project because companies are allowed to license the content for their own directories or search engines. The quality of information is excellent and if you fancy participating you can submit 2 or 3 reviews of sites in your chosen area and become and editor yourself. The hierarchy is simple to use and there's no fancy graphics or advertising to slow things down. The Google search ... more
  • 8 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    amrit

    5 Stars Short cut to getting listed elsewhere 07/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Exhaustive directory, indexed by other engines

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Listings can take several weeks to appear

    Dmoz is used as a base directory by over 100 search-engines, including Google, AltaVista, HotBot, AOL etc. It is the biggest directory on the Web, maintained by volunteer editors which means every site has been checked manually. For those who use it for searching - it is best used by browsing categories for your area of interest although of course you can search by keyword. It currently has over 2.3M sites listed in over 338,000 categories, so you should find correct place for your sites. Follow the submission guidelines carefully to avoid being blacklisted eg by submitting different urls ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    oldmanshands

    4 Stars The best place to start a search 04/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Enormous number of relevant sites

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not very up to date sometimes

    This site is a little known wonder of the web. Rather than a robotic search engine, this is entirely compiled by actual people. This means that all the sites are relevant and you don't waste time like you would with traditional search engine. Rather than professional directories like google, dmoz uses an army of volunteers, which means that the people who compile each section are generally people interested in and knowledgable about whatever it is they are doing, which is obviously a good thing. The site is simple and easy to navigate, not being filled with adverts like so many sites. This ... more
  • 1 of 1 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Lad

    4 Stars Great Idea 09/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Human Edited

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none really

    DMOZ stands for Directory-Mozilla or similar and is commonly known as the Open Directory Project. Remember that name because it is becoming more and more mportant on the web. Many of the bigger and more famous search engines are using results from the Open Directory when calculating which pages are most relevant. The database is used many many websites now and is probably only beaten in importance by Yahoo. This will soon change though as Yahoo seems to be spiralling downwards whilst DMOZ grows. The directory is maintained by volunteer editors who have a certain amount of knowledge on the area ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Bryn_Pearson

    5 Stars Vital for site promotion 21/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages free listing

    Disadvantages Disadvantages non.

    If you have a website to promote, it is absolutly vital that you list it with the dmoz directory. This directory is free, and supplies content to many smaller engines and websites. If I had a pound for every site I have seen linked to this engine I would be a very happy bunny! Now that many engines and directories are charging you to submit, free promotion is a rare and valuable thing. It doesn't come much better than dmoz. Submitting is easy - pick a suitable site category and add you url. In the fullness of time, a real person will look at your site and make sure it is suitable for listing ... more
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