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Originally Posted by Tanoro

I don't know anyone who would want to. ODP does not impress me at all. I registered with them well over 2 years ago and I have heard nothing from them. They rant all the time about how their editors are volunteers and work at their own pace and that's the way it should be. "Become an editor if you don't like our speed. We need all the help we can get." I tried to join, but they never responded to my application.

I find dead links on ODP all the time and many categories have so few sites in them it's pathetic. The ODP is either dead or dying.

I know it's dead. I still have a site in there that I abandoned about a year and a half ago or more, back when I hosted it on AOL. Doesn't really speak good about how the directory is managed, especially as the moving link probably goes to a dead site.

I also heard a lot about corruption and the directory not only removing sites criticising it but also being bribed to include/remove certain sites. Kind of thing which seems common experience from many bloggers.

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I'd say on the deathbed. It was run by Netscape before that was bought by AOL. AOL has since closed all software development for Netscape and only competes with itself for Internet Access. The Mozilla project is lucky because it got spun off into a non-profit and received financing from AOL, Google, IBM and Redhat to keep their doors open.

Without any money coming in, not much incentive to keep ODP open and with Google financing Mozilla, they won't put any effort into it.

You can tell Google don't care; try easily finding it from their website. Of course, it would probably be better if one of the said companies who owns it would just start over with somewhat paid staff instead of volunteers, or tried to manage it better.