Hi, Just want to announce that we are in the process of creating a new directory and we need editors that are interested in topics ranging from "Apples to...
Hi All, This is a brief history of an open-content, open-source search engine from the founder of Wikipedia; and a call for discussion of its future. As...
... Oops, in my previous message, the link to the Future_of_the_Search_Wikia at the bottom of the message has an extraneous "." at the end of the URL, which...
While installing Yahoo! Messenger today, I found a somewhat dated message from James A. Warholic regarding his article What Really Is The ODP . In researching...
The most frustrating situations that I encounter as an Internet consultant are those where clients come to me after they have deployed a new website or made...
On Monday July 31, 2006, The Colbert Report aired a feature on Wikipedia, and (at his prompting) Stephen Colbert's minions quickly descended on Wikipedia's...
In a recent blog post , I said that the ongoing efforts to develop the Semantic Web provide a surprisingly coherent vision of how the Internet should be...
According to recent news reports, MySpace.com is now the most highly trafficked website in the United States, eclipsing search engine giant Google. Like the...
An issue has been brought up at WebmasterWorld that should get the attention of every webmaster. Apparently ICANN is attempting to change the rules concerning...
Rob O. Zilla
Robozilla@...
Aug 27, 2006 6:49 pm
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In a previous blog post, I set forth the site configuration procedures that I go through prior to launching a static website and the ongoing content...
Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto 2006 went head to head with the much larger AdTech San Francisco on April 25th and 26th earlier this year, and I had a...
Since the advent of the now defunct Archie server in 1990, keyword queries have played a critical role in all search engine technology, reinventing -- if not...
Hi., How long a website normally takes to get indexed?. I submitted our site in a category where there was no editor :( and our site just fits there. Its now...
Trade shows can be very worthwhile. There does come a time where your accumulated knowledge far outweighs the potential new knowledge gained at each future...
I hope no one gets offenended by me posting this link here but I would like to you all know that you may use TreeBat.Com, to search the web it is 2 US dollars...
Greetings All, A revitalization is beginning for Wikiasari, the open-content, open-source search engine project envisioned by Jimbo Wales, the founder of...
Wikipedia Founder Jimbo Wales is in the news , recapitulating the motto of the late, never-really-great ODP/dMOZ that "Humans do it better" when it comes to...
According to an Associated Press article that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, January 24, 2007, Microsoft acknowledged that it had approached a...
In a considered response to my previous blog post entitled This Wikipedia Article Brought to You by Microsoft , comes now a blog post by Geoffrey Burling : "....
Following a trail of bread crumbs on the blogosphere that was created by my recent exchange of thoughts with Wikipedian Geoffrey Burling led me from Burling's...
In a previous XODP Blog post , I stated my belief that whatever creative and progressive genius ODP/dMOZ once had has been inherited by Wikipedia. Following up...
Although it's hardly breaking news, I recently discovered that Wikipedia developer Brion Vibber has reinstated nofollow attributes for outbound links on...
A post on John Battelle's Searchblog points to an article on VentureBeat , the latter being journalist Matt Marshall's recently launched online publication...
While following up on a previous XODP Blog post that covered Powerset's attempts to outdo Google by using Natural Language Processing (NLP), I discovered a...
In a recent XODP Blog post , I extolled the virtues of WordNet and declared that it was one of the best kept secrets when it comes to Natural Language...
Very curious posts on Rick Skrenta's blog: DMOZ had 9 lives. Used up yet? http://www.skrenta.com/2006/12/dmoz_had_9_lives_used_up_yet.html...
Rob O. Zilla
Robozilla@...
Feb 21, 2007 4:35 pm
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While I occasionally mention ODP/dMOZ in a historical context, particularly so in reference to Wikipedia inheriting whatever creative genius ODP once had , I...
While following up on a previous XODP Blog post narrating the death and resurrection of ODP , I found a link in a post on the Text Technologies blog pointing...
I intended my article as a start to the conversation, I'm glad it has done so :) When writing my article, I was thinking about an ideal DMOZ, which worked and...
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