Jim Kukral: Google Should Come Out & Publicly Dump DMOZ
Jack Yan
· 2 years ago
Jim, I’m not sure about the veracity of the original story. There’s no evidence of this supposed extortion email although Mr Schoemaker has been quite open at sharing other things. (His disclaimer even states, in a tongue-in-cheek way, that we should expect that everything on his site is a lie.) I just had someone check his site’s DMOZ record for me and apparently a bribe was offered by him to editors in 2005, though how that came about is unclear. My guess is Mr Schoemaker is hiding something, or this was a blog entry designed to bait others in the blogosphere.
Even regular Joes like me will share dodgy email, headers intact, when I get mad at something. Sometimes I’ll omit the name of the sender but I will still paste the actual wording from the message.
My own experience with DMOZ is that the editors are pretty good, though that was a few years ago, and a revamped version where everyday people can vote on sites might be an idea.
Gecko
· 2 years ago
DMOZ was one of the first sites online that made me believe the Internet was a really good thing. Over time it just sorta died out. I don't know if Jeremy 'Shoemoney' is playing around or not, but DMOZ is sadly dead and needs to be revamped or dumped.
Jim Kukral
· 2 years ago
I think my point remains that Google doesn't need the dmoz at all any longer, right? Do they? So they should just dump it in public and the whole thing will become irrelevant.
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Even regular Joes like me will share dodgy email, headers intact, when I get mad at something. Sometimes I’ll omit the name of the sender but I will still paste the actual wording from the message.
My own experience with DMOZ is that the editors are pretty good, though that was a few years ago, and a revamped version where everyday people can vote on sites might be an idea.