Rumors are flying that the good folks at Google have an alternative to PayPal in the works. If anyone from the Googleplex happens by here, drop me an e-mail, as I'd love for our site to be part of the beta. I love Google, and not just because they bring the most customers to our site.
Google is a triumph of well-thought-out design. I respect that in the same way I respect the Mac OS. Yahoo ought to have learned something about building a better web page from Google by now. Why they insist on leading search results with paid sponsorship is beyond me. It's confusing to the user, which benefits neither the advertiser nor Yahoo as a search engine. Move paid search results aside, please, and let me click on them by choice, not by accident.
Meanwhile, the DMOZ folks suspended their Site Submission Status forum rather quietly a month ago. So quietly, in fact, that I wasn't aware of this until today, when I went looking for it. I'll take a wild guess that this has a lot to do with the general negativity toward DMOZ these days. With allegations of corruption and favoritism hanging heavy over the Web, this is not the tactic to take. It's the equivalent of turning off the phone at customer service because you don't want to listen to the complaints.
Guess what, DMOZ? That's part of being in business. I could question the decisions others have made to vest so much importance in an all-volunteer project. But in business, we operate on trust, and the real fault lies when someone makes a promise that they cannot keep. DMOZ should either reestablish transparency with its users and get things back on track or shut down.
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