ACAP was released yesterday!
“Its main initial purpose is for communicating access and usage permissions to web crawlers (also known as ’spiders’ or ‘robots’) - the automated processes employed by search engine operators and others to “crawl” the web and harvest content for use in their services.” (ACAP site)
More information about how to implement it and why, on Implement ACAP.
Here you have an updated list of free directories.
1. Open Directory Project - PR 8
2. Librarians’ Internet Index - PR 8
3. Ezilon Europe - Regional Web Directory and Search Engine - PR 6
4. Sphericom - PR 5
5. Scrub the Web - PR 5
6. iMegaMall - PR 5
7. Web World Directory - PR 5
8. Web central - PR 5
9. CANLinks Directory - PR 5
10. World Site Index Web Directory - PR 5
11. Abi Logic Directory - PR 5
12. IllumiRate - PR 5
13. Where2go.com - PR 5
14. Cipinet web Directory - PR 5
15. Outsourcing.org - PR 5
16. Wow Website Directory - PR 4
17. Multilingual Search Catalog - PR 4
18. ZenSearch.com - PR 4
19. Zeezo - PR 4
20. Resource Central - PR 4
21. SOCEngine - PR 4
22. SearchtheWeb.com - PR 4
23. SgtSearch Web Directory - PR 4
24. NetInsert - PR 4
25. Megri.com - PR 4
26. Somuch.com - PR 3
27. UU Directory - PR 3
28. Poddys Web Friendly Directory - PR 3
29. SearchWarp - PR 3
30. Tsection Web Directory - PR 3
31. Business Directory of USA - PR 2
32. The Stop@ Business & Home Search Engine - PR 2
33. Shoula - PR 2
Two days ago Open Directory project launched Open Directory Project Blog. As Bob Keaton wrote in the first post, this blog will be used to:
- Provide authentic messages about DMOZ and the efforts of our volunteer community.
- Highlight enhancements, both current and future.
- Allow editors to showcase their categories and describe, in their own words, why DMOZ is so important.
- Recruit new editors. If you have access to the Web and are passionate about a category, find out how to apply.
This launching comes few days after Search Engine Land announced that dmoz.org does not appear in Google search results for “dmoz”, “open directory” and “open directory project”. At the first sight dmoz was delisted from Google search results, but Matt Cutts explained the cause in a discussion on Sphinn.
It seems we can still trust dmoz.