Comments on: The Open Directory’s Home Page Goes Missing In Google

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:27:25 +0000

SPECULATION – this might be a bug in the interaction between Google’s canonicalization routine and redirection issues.

http:// search.dmoz.org/ does a 301 redirect to http:// dmoz.org/

http:// dmoz.org/ does a 301 redirect to http:// http://www.dmoz.org/

I wonder if somehow, it’s deciding that http:// search.dmoz.org/ IS http:// http://www.dmoz.org/ and so then discarding http:// http://www.dmoz.org/

By: JLH

JLH — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:11:50 +0000

People have been complaining over at Google webmaster’s help group for quite some time about home pages disappearing and no one has bothered to check it out. This semi-popular site doing the same hopefully will encourage them to look into it, but will probably just be a handjob to fix dmoz since it’s gotten so much press lately.

By: dyland

dyland — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:23 +0000

Not appearing for a search even for your 'company' name (in this case dmoz) can be a sign of a hand edit. http://www.seobook.com/how-know-difference-between-automated-penalty-hand-edit

By: Paul Pedersen

Paul Pedersen — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:12:40 +0000

Woot! Better late than never.