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Old 10-23-2005, 12:37 AM  
Mr. Marks
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Originally Posted by Mutt
DMOZ crumbled under the gargantuan task of doing what the thread starter suggests - it's simply not doable - no company is going to invest in the number of human drones to do that job. if Google allows itself to be overrun by spammers like AltaVista did before it a new engine will emerge as king. Then that one will have its day until it loses the war and so on and so on .......
DMOZ is composed of volunteer editors. So that's what's causing their demise--lots of self-interested and outright corrupt editors.

A better example of high value added search engine content system is About.com -- it sold within the past year for quite a nice amount of bling
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