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dmoz, The Open Directory Project: The Republic of the World Wide WebEven as search engine technology makes great strides in providing useful and relevant search results to the public via complex mathematical formulas, the "human touch" is still very important to people, as is evident by the continuing success of the Open Directory Project, owned by Netscape Inc. ( An AOL owned company ). Founded on the tradition of the "open source" revolution ( whereby the flow of information is always open to the public and any source information is provided free of charge ), DMOZ maintains its original declaration to become the definitive catalog of the web based on the idea of a republic:
The idea of volunteering and maintaining specific categories for a web directory was, and to this day still is, extremely attractive to a wide audience, and the Open Directory Project quickly became the largest human edited directory of websites in the world. Attaining a prominent listing in the ODP also became very attractive to budding webmasters, and remains a very important consideration in search engine optimization to this day, primarily due to the strong dmoz-google partnership. The free DMOZ data feed is used by thousands of websites across the globe, and serves as the sole data source for google.com directory listings. Getting listed in DMOZ is dependent upon:
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