![]() ![]() All of the folks there who had been championing product-lead growth are now gone. So regardless of the tactics of whether specific front-line people in AOL ops can get the machine running again or not, I doubt that the environment there will be very good in the longer term. In fact, my guess is that everyone involved in the management chain there over dmoz for the past 6 years is now gone. Not sure if you all have been following the drama going on within AOL, but I doubt they have any attention for dmoz at all at this point, less even than usual. My (edited) reply to a dmoz meta editor who contacted me about the extended outage: In a 2003 talk, I predicted that the server would get lost in AOL ops, and, deprived of any staff who understood how it worked, it would just crash one day, and that would be it. Unfortunately, as with many ( most?) acquisitions, the hopeful little product was eventually lost within the sprawling org. We took the Netscape offer it was a great strategic fit, since they had a lot of traffic to pour on the directory, and were willing to give the data away for free. Within 4 months we had the CTO of LookSmart saying we wanted to quit and join us, an acquisition offer from Infoseek, a $5M funding offer from Lycos, an angel funding offer being brokered by the Venture Law Group, and an acquisition offer from Netscape. Next, we can continue our discussions if there is enough interest on this side. We think that the best way to continue the process would be for you to name a price range for a possible purchase, including the appropriate market and financial information justifying that price. This is our preferred option, but we would certainly consider discussing other partnering opportunities if this doesn't work out. We are very much interested in purchasing the technology, content, and founders of NewHoo. I just got off the phone with Steve Kirsch, Infoseek's founder and Chairman of the Board. ![]() What do you do when you get an email like this? ironic! :-) Hey guys, it's 2006, open up. The remaining ODP editors will probably be mad at me for discussing this, but they get mad at me whenever I talk about the ODP. Perhaps they're concerned about an exodus of the remaining editors, or gleeful proclamations of death from the SEM industry. Even if some form of the ODP editing system is brought back, the likelihood of continued existence within AOL seems extremely doubtful.ĭmoz doesn't exactly operate on a model of transparency, to say the least, so they have been keeping the details of what happened private. Add in the massive AOL layoffs last week, and it's not clear if there's even any left over there who cares. So for the past 6 weeks, a few folks have been trying to patch the system back together again (reverse engineering from the latest RDF dump, I suppose). Standard backups had been discontinued for some reason during unsuccessful attempts to restore some of the lost data, ops blew away the rest of the existing data on the system. Trond Sorvoja: Will AOL allow a Open Directory Foundation?Īpparently the machine holding dmoz in AOL ops crashed. Resource Zone: submit URL link not working Get the model yet but he's clearly got a bold plan up his sleeve. It will be interesting to see whether Jimmy Wales can replicate thisĬommercial twin to WikiPedia. I'm surprised to not see them in this list. Given how often I see come up in the results This list doesn't distinguish between paid and non-paid listings,īut clearly WikiPedia isn't buying adwords so 100% of their juice The full list of top-10 Google downstream sites is: Google accounts for nearly 50% of their inbound traffic.īut "wikipedia" is their top inbound search term, so people are In the future are likely to preserve and reinforce this effect. Non-commercial, so Google can feel good about having them rank at the The articles are excellent quality, and WikiPedia is entirely This is also exactly the kind of destination content that Google Since they've doubled their article count over the past year, to 1.5MĮnglish articles, their search footprint has expanded. Noticed that WikiPedia has top rankings now for more and more searches. Google sends more traffic to WikiPedia than any other site, ![]()
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