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Type of site | Web directory |
| Available in | 90 languages, including English |
| Dissolved | March 17, 2017 |
| Successor(s) | Curlie[citation needed] |
| Parent | AOL |
| URL | www.dmoz.org (Archived 2018-01-19 at the Wayback Machine) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 90,000 |
| Launched | June 5, 1998 |
| Current status | Closed |
Content license | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, Open Directory License |
DMOZ (stylized dmoz in its logo; from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links. The site and community who maintained it were also known as the Open Directory Project (ODP). It was owned by AOL (now a part of Yahoo! Inc) but constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
DMOZ used a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories.
DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017, because AOL no longer wished to support the project.[1][2] The website became a single landing page on that day, with links to a static archive of DMOZ, and to the DMOZ discussion forum, where plans to rebrand and relaunch the directory were being discussed.[2]
As of September 2017[update], a non-editable mirror remained available at dmoztools.net,[3] and it was announced that while the DMOZ URL would not return, a successor version of the directory named Curlie would be provided.[4][5] By 2018 ODP, DMoz and Curlie were considered synonyms.[6] Curlie was well established by 2022, using the hierarchy from Dmoz.[7]
- ^ Sullivan, Danny (March 17, 2017). "DMOZ has officially closed after nearly 19 years of humans trying to organize the web". Search Engine Land. Archived from the original on July 17, 2017. Retrieved July 17, 2017.
- ^ a b "Why Dmoz Was Closed ?". Resource-Zone.com. April 16, 2017. Archived from the original on October 28, 2020. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ "The Directory of the Web – This site includes information formerly made available via DMOZ". dmoztools.net. Archived from the original on August 23, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- ^ "New dmoz". Resource-Zone.com. May 5, 2017. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2017.
- ^ "Curlie: Present". curlie.org. March 29, 2017. Archived from the original on September 18, 2017. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
- ^ Han, Miyoung; Wuillemin, Pierre-Henri; Senellart, Pierre (2018). Mikkonen, Tommi; Klamma, Ralf; Hernández, Juan (eds.). Focused Crawling Through Reinforcement Learning. Web Engineering: 18th International Conference, ICWE 2018, Cáceres, Spain, June 5-8, 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI. Vol. 10845. Springer. p. 272. ISBN 9783319916620.
- ^ Wu, Dan; Dong, Jing; Liang, Shaobo (2022). Cross-device Web Search. Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–33. ISBN 9780429510342.