Hmmm... Guess sucks was a strong word. Didn't mean to offend. Maybe I should explain a bit better what I wanted to know.
I use a Dmoz backend myself, and I found that most of the links at the top for every category were from relevant pages of the same sites, some of which were not even working. It was obvious that editors had dumped every page of their sites into Dmoz. I should also mention here that way back when DMoz had just started, I was an editor for 'Telecom'. I gave it up very soon, because they weren't paying. Never had the chance to build any relationships or gain any knowledge.
As for my question about the search, I realize that surfers don't use dmoz that much, however, I get a few visitors from sites which are using dmoz as a backend. In fact, I send out a lot of hits from the backend myself. I have taken out their search box from my back end, but I'm sure a lot of sites haven't and I would like to know what, if anything, needs to be done to improve the search results. However, I do agree that it's not as important as tweaking pages for google or yahoo. The only reason I brought it up is that GG is a former editor and this thread was about the ODP.
You all are successful and important people in this industry and as such more likely to know more about this than someone like me. Sorry about the length of the post. I tend to ramble a bit.
