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MSN allows opting out of Open Directory listing descriptions for webmasters

May 25, 2006

“Even though these human-edited descriptions provide a lot of value, with human editing may come human error, bias, descriptions getting outdated, or the editor’s text may simply not suit the webmasters who want to be represented in their own way.” - MSN

I have been a victim of what I consider bias by the so-called ‘human editors’ at DMOZ. This site was summarily yanked out for no tangible reason.

DMOZ a.k.a “Open Directory Project (ODP)” is open to abuse by competitors, biased and even bigoted editors. Do not mis-construe this as a sweeping statement condemning a whole bunch of editors, but in an imperfect world such as ours there is bound to be some who don’t like others for all kinds of reasons, ranging competitive bias to everything imaginable.

I applaud MSN and I hope Yahoo and Google follow suit.

Read about it at the MSN Search’s WebLog.

Written by James Opiko · Filed Under Marketing, Search Engines, Web-Dev-Design 

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