Sorry, another SEO question.

[Fred Bloggs]

Virtually every search engine out there uses the DMOZ directory (either directly or indirectly) within their results including Google themselves.

Thanks I've been in DMOZ for several years.

[AtW]

Thanks again for the tips. I've been in DMOZ directory about 6 or 7 years now for my present domain name. It seems Google is HEAVILY biased towards jobs boards. Not fair for us small guys that.

They have a lot of backlinks with relevant anchor text, Google made correct decision in this case - if they shown top 10 results with just 10 very specific Process Engineers all around the world then this search result page will be useless to most people. Not to say job boards can be much more useful, the potentially that's the case.

[AtW]

I considered starting a thread in general the other day on "should google be broken up"

They are much bigger than Bell Labs ever were.

They do have an effective monopoly in this country - they leverage increasing ad prices by introducing free products that cause existing businesses in that field to go down since they can't compete with "free". IMO - monopolies should not be allowed to use profits from sector where they hold monopoly in order to offer products below cost of making them in other sectors, that's unfair competition and abuse of their position.

They are lucky that they've got just 60-65% market share in the USA - if they had 90% there then I'd guarantee you they'd have lawsuit from Justice Department. Unfortunately in this country it's not happening. Maybe that's because historically monopolies were everywhere in this country (owned by the state): British Rail, British Gas, British Telecom, British Airways, British Petroleum did I miss any?

[Fred Bloggs]

They have a lot of backlinks with relevant anchor text, Google made correct decision in this case - if they shown top 10 results with just 10 very specific Process Engineers all around the world then this search result page will be useless to most people. Not to say job boards can be much more useful, the potentially that's the case.

Yes, I see your point. I have to work on this long tail idea I think. Thanks, I'd never heard of it before I asked.

[minestrone]

I put the long tail into plan b at the start of the week and it already seems to be working today. I thought that if I put my main search terms into the content and title it would work but I was competing against 2 million other sites.

I plugged my 2 word term into the key word google thingy and it came up with 40 or 50 similar 3 or 4 word terms that people search on. I placed the ones relevant to my site into the landing page, sometimes in headers and sometimes in content and it does work.

[Fred Bloggs]

I put the long tail into plan b at the start of the week and it already seems to be working today. I thought that if I put my main search terms into the content and title it would work but I was competing against 2 million other sites.

I plugged my 2 word term into the key word google thingy and it came up with 40 or 50 similar 3 or 4 word terms that people search on. I placed the ones relevant to my site into the landing page, sometimes in headers and sometimes in content and it does work.

Thanks I need to work on this then, it seems.

[minestrone]

They do have an effective monopoly in this country - they leverage increasing ad prices by introducing free products that cause existing businesses in that field to go down since they can't compete with "free". IMO - monopolies should not be allowed to use profits from sector where they hold monopoly in order to offer products below cost of making them in other sectors, that's unfair competition and abuse of their position.

They are lucky that they've got just 60-65% market share in the USA - if they had 90% there then I'd guarantee you they'd have lawsuit from Justice Department. Unfortunately in this country it's not happening. Maybe that's because historically monopolies were everywhere in this country (owned by the state): British Rail, British Gas, British Telecom, British Airways, British Petroleum did I miss any?

I was reading in The Times last week about Sarkosy firing a shot across google's bow on the subject of digitising of French culture, he has a point but he is never going to get anywhere.