Google Directory, Blogs and Baseball

Google directory updated about a year ago, and since then, I'm afraid the love for money seems to be preventing them from using their strength, the database created carefully and properly by many of the Open Directory Project's volunteers. Now Google seems to be focused on Adwords which prevents updating and indexing of the proper and relevant sites. Therefore, unfortunetly, Baseball Blogs and other websites which were included in Dmoz are left in limbo, awaiting for that promised Google directory update.

Why bring this up here on a baseball site? It's because this is a baseball news topic discussion forum, and no one can find it. It's frustrating to have over 600 pages indexed by Google, on a blog page hosted by Google, but not be searched for in queries regarding baseball in their search engine. Google looks through their directory pages for the immediate results, so anyone looking for say My Page Here, is not going to find it. What they'll find are the sponsored and PAID for results on Google's page, and of course, the usual directory results, the old results.

Also, I noticed that all or most blogs are dishonest and doing just as Google is doing, trying to make a buck. All those popular results you find when you type "Baseball", they all have tons of advertisements on their page. They are there to make money, not to provide quality content for the visitors.

It's a shame that a search engine and company which was successful and reached enormous heights from including only the most relevant search results, in a system built by public volunteers, is now resorting to the money making gimmicks, thus stifling any chance of maintaining such success. People will only find results which are out to make money, instead of the results they used to find which were relevant baseball, or any other pages with real content, as determined by Dmoz. It's a shame. I hope they wakeup and update their directory according to the listings on Dmoz, so that the web surfers can find real honest and relevant content, whether baseball or any other sports website.

Mark C. - (Baseball Etc.)