Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by zozbot234 on Sunday January 19, 2020 @03:51PM
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I don't think DMOZ had ranking per se? They could mark "preferred" sites for any given category, but only a handful of them at most, and with very high standards, i.e. it needed to be the official site or "THE" definitive resource about X.
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Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by reaperducer on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:59PM
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You are correct, the sites weren't "ranked" the same way that Google ranks sites now. But there were preferred sites, and each site had a description written by an editor who could be fairly unpleasant if they wanted to.
I had a site that appeared in DMOZ, and the description was written in such a way that nobody would want to visit it. But it was one of only a few sites on the internet at the time with its information, so it was included.