The Google Directory Has FINALLY Been Updated From Dmoz/ODP.

The Google Directory has been updated!!!!!! Can you believe that! The Google Directory hasn't been updated since maybe 2005, although I've seen on other websites where they say it hasn't been updated since early 2006. The copyright on the Google Directory before this recent update was 2005 and the copyright now is 2007. One thing is for sure and that's that it's about damn time! Some editors have been following this Google outdatedness closely and some even taking it personally, although I think they try to hide their frustration through certain types of proposals on the Internal forum.

So, you're probably wondering why after over one year of not updating that Google finally decides to update their directory when it seems like they were going to let it die into oblivion? Well, editors got fed up and began throwing sticks at AOL, yes, the AOL, and someone within AOL began prodding Google with one of those sticks. Thank you AOL/Dmoz staff!!!!! Great job and persistence indeed.

It seems Google took the Dmoz RDF, RFD, anyway the Dmoz "data dump" to begin parsing it sometime in August, some websites have the approximate date as sometime in early August 2007. According to an editor who has been following this update closely, the update began on a few of Google's data centers in Europe and over a span of weeks most, if not all, data centers were eventually updated. It was taking so long to update all the data centers that I thought Google had just abandoned the update. But, no fear, with AOL/Dmoz staff we now have an updated Google directory.

If your site was included in the Dmoz directory before Google downloaded the data dump, sometime in August, then your site will appear in the Google directory. If your site appear after they downloaded the database then your site won't appear in the Google directory, so I guess you'll have to wait for the next Google directory update, hehehhe, there's something sinister about saying that.