February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h
English
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Building Google Directory URLs
This hack uses ODP category information to build URLs for the Google Directory.
The Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/) overlays the Open Directory Project (or “ODP” or "DMOZ,” http://www.dmoz.org/) ontology onto the Google core index. The result is a Yahoo!-like directory hierarchy of search results and their associated categories with the added magic of Google’s popularity algorithms.
The ODP opens its entire database of listings to anybody—provided you’re willing to download a 205 MB file (and that’s compressed!). While you’re probably not interested in all the individual listings, you might want particular ODP categories. Or you may be interested in watching new listings flowing into certain categories.
Unfortunately, the ODP does not offer a way to search by keyword sites added within a recent time period. (Yahoo! does offer this.) So instead of searching for recently added sites, the best way to get new site information from the ODP is to monitor categories.
Because the Google Directory does build its directory based on the ODP information, you can use the ODP category hierarchy information to generate Google Directory URLs. This hack searches the ODP category hierarchy information for keywords you specify, then builds Google Directory URLs and checks them to make sure they’re active.
You’ll need to download the category hierarchy information from the ODP to get this hack to work. The compressed file containing this information is available ...
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