I have no idea why people would upvote this story.
It is a book containing a bunch of links sorted by categories. Anyone can submit, it has to be approved by some people and then you are on it and maybe other search engines will use it. Although, I doubt anyone is using DMOZ nowadays. It is pretty old... I'm surprised it is still up.
If I had something interesting to say about that, I ran into their list of cryptographers:
It is a book containing a bunch of links sorted by categories. Anyone can submit, it has to be approved by some people and then you are on it and maybe other search engines will use it. Although, I doubt anyone is using DMOZ nowadays. It is pretty old... I'm surprised it is still up.
If I had something interesting to say about that, I ran into their list of cryptographers:
* http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Applications/Communication_...
* http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Math/Applications/Communication_...
I have no idea how they made it. It seems pretty random.