Lost directory listing...

[The Man in the Jar]

While doing a few routine checks I spotted that I was no longer listed in the Open Directory.

In a panic I searched the Google directory and my site came up as a directory result. However when I followed the link to the directory category my site was not in the listing (let's call it category A).

I checked my backlinks and found the Google directory link was still there (no sign of OD link). Here when I followed the link back to the listed category (category B) I got a page that said the category did not exist anymore as it had been replaced by category A (the one that I'm not in anymore).

I suppose I have to resubmit to OD and take whatever downgrade I get at the next update while I wait for relisting.

Always be looking over your shoulder...Always.

[The Man in the Jar]

Kill the thread...!

My site now shows up in category C !

I must have been searching at the precise moment they were shifting it - or they haven't reindexed the search.

Phew, that's a relief.

[g1smd]

The search facility at dmoz.org is busted; without timescale of resolution. Multiple problems. Might be related to the RDF now being all in UTF-8, but possibly with a duff character somewhere messing it up. Might be a problem with the search database update facility, or with the search scripts themselves. It is being worked on. Probably a week or two to resolution.

Google Directory has ODP data up until about 2004-04-14 in it. However their directory content is different to that hinted at by their search results. They update those things separately, at different times.