Google Directory vs DMOZ
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What is the difference between the Google Directory and the DMOZ if any?
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And now Google has shut down the Google Directory, so it's just DMOZ. http://searchengineland.com/final-nail-in-the-google-directory-coffin-86505
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The ODP synchronises data out to sites that use its data periodically. If I remember rightly it can be as long as 6 months between updates ( don't quote me on that though) but it certainly isn't in real time!
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The reason I had originally asked is I performed a search in Google on the keywords "electronic contract manufacturing" the fifth ranked site was The Google Directory(http://www.google.com/Top/Business/Electronics_and_Electrical/Contract_Manufacturing/), next I did a search in Google on the keywords "electronic contract manufacturing dmoz" and the number one site was the DMOZ for that category (http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Electronics_and_Electrical/Contract_Manufacturing/).
There seems to be a slight difference here. And also, I got a company listed in the DMOZ for that category, they show up in the DMOZ but now the Google Directory. So it doesn't look like they even share results.
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Interesting, never knew this. When did they change the name?
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They are basically the same. They use the ODP (Open Direcotry Project). The Google directory apparently uses Google's pagerank alogirthm within the categories.
When searching for Google Directory on Google you can see this as the site description:
**_"Google Directory - _**Searchable directory based on the ODP, combined with their own PageRank algorithm within each category."
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They're one and the same, fundamentally. DMOZ was the original name, it was later renamed to the Open Directory Project. Google Directory has google search technology layered on top of the ODP data.
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