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Google Dupes Dmoz

search google for dmoz and you will find it gone, well you should be able to see it here http://core-n02.dmoz.aol.com:30080/ looks like a dupe content issue or dns issue

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  1. 1. Joost de Valk | September 24th 2007 @ 3:18 pm

    Jup, a ban would be better for them though :P

  2. 2. Mark | September 24th 2007 @ 5:04 pm

    Hehe, I was just having a conversation about how worthless and corrupt dmoz is.. Bin the whole thing Google!

  3. 3. Stefan Juhl | September 24th 2007 @ 5:53 pm

    Another wild guess, is that since they recently 301′ed netscape.com to netscape.aol.com the ODP copy on aol.com has more “authority” than dmoz.org. Pretty much like hijacking rankings by replicating other sites on a more trusted domain.

  4. 4. Darren | September 24th 2007 @ 7:56 pm

    search.dmoz.org/ is 3rd in Google and redirects to http://www.dmoz.org

  5. 5. pittfall | September 25th 2007 @ 3:45 am

    Could this be an early Christmas present? DMOZ has long been outdated and irrelevant. I didn’t see it on Rand’s list of directories that Google was dropping…

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  7. 7. Mat | September 25th 2007 @ 6:59 am

    I think http://www.dmoz.org did this by creating a 301 self-loop on their root page. More info:

    http://sphinn.com/story/6594#c9614

  8. 8. creative | September 25th 2007 @ 10:29 am

    http://sphinn.com/story/6594#wholecomment9614

  9. 9. g1smd | September 25th 2007 @ 11:26 pm

    It’s a simple domain canonicalisation issue.

    While fixing up the site-wide 301 redirects for (www\.)?(dmoz¦newhoo)\.(com¦org) to all point to http://www.dmoz.org/ - as well as upgrading and expanding various bits of hardware - it appears that one set of URLs was overlooked.

    Google is indexing URLs from one of the load-balancing servers, and has been doing so for at least 6 weeks. It shouldn’t take very long to fix up the problem, and get Google back on track and indexing the canonical domain.

  10. 10. Chris Boswell | September 26th 2007 @ 6:40 pm

    Only just found the DMOZ news here: http://www.wmseo.org/post/13.htm

    Thought I’d best have a look on Dave’s blog and see if this was accurate information, before I bought myself the white armband and went around singing ‘hey ho DMOZ is dead’. False Alarm, ho hum!

  11. 11. Ian | September 27th 2007 @ 3:47 am

    Please see the new official DMOZ blog for an explanation as to how this issue got resolved: http://blog.dmoz.org/2007/09/26/the-search-for-dmoz/

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    […] Dave reported that dmoz was out of google a few days ago now its back in, i wonder whats going on i doubt its because of the dupe found on aol servers, it may just be a back up and c’mon google gave it authority it won’t take it away just like that….would it? […]

  13. 13. g1smd | September 28th 2007 @ 10:59 pm

    *** I doubt its because of the dupe found on AOL servers, ***

    There were several factors. This is one of them:

    http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site%3Acore-n02.dmoz.aol.com+-inurl:chefmoz

    and that has already been fixed.

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  15. 15. Dubai | February 11th 2008 @ 5:00 am

    But DMOZ is soooo important to the web how could this happen? LMAO, I can gey by without my dmoz listing… You might be able to tell I’m not a fan.

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