Final Nail In The Google Directory Coffin
by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land
Jul 20, 2011
In 2008, Google removed directory links from Webmaster Tools and in December 2010, Google dropped the search box from the Google directory.
Today, Google has completely removed the Google Directory as a Google service. Going to directory.google.com will show you a notice that reads the “Google Directory is no longer available”. Yesterday the directory was live but today, Google quietly and without warning removed it.
In truth, DMOZ/ODP has been of historical interest only to anyone but the increasingly shrinking in-group that constitutes DMOZ editors for years. Their claim to importance in recent years has been the desperate claim that Google still thought they had value – despite the fact that Google had pretty much stopped updating the listings in their cloned version a long time ago. Now clearly, DMOZ exists only to continue to feed the pathetic egos of its
editors.
R.I.P. DMOZ. We hardly knew ye.
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