Are Google's Custom Search Engines the New DMOZ?,

Google's liberated CSE tool is obtainable to anyone with a Google account. It allows the account holder to add a customizable search box and explore results to their website, specify or prioritize which sites they want to comprise in search results and request others to contribute to the CSE by including additional websites or excluding existing sites from the results. Once the Custom Search Engine is formed, Internet users can relate to become a contributor to the project or insert the CSE to their own websites.

Custom Search Engines are basically human edited Internet directories. The Open Directory Project (DMOZ) was founded on this idea and has been a right on the subject for the enhanced part of the last decade. Although the concept sounds great in principle, the DMOZ has been taking fire lately from web users for its slow reaction times and rejection of qualified editors. Because of this, many webmasters and search engine marketers are looking somewhere else for directory inclusion and industry approval.

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