xxxjay,
Wasn't my find. A guy on webmasterworld named 'Kackle' found it.
He calls it a 'dictionary' of phrases- but it seems like a 'phrase blacklist' to me.
It only trips certain phrases. There are so many posts in that Google Update thread it's crazy.
Have seen other people mention that there are SERP's where entire DMOZ lists don't appear.
This is the case for a site I manage which is in a *very* niche market and is only known by one term. In searching 'industry name company' not a single company pops up in Google. Nevermind the site I manage- quite literally *all* companies were ZAPPED from the results.
The #4 spot for 'industry name' previosuly held by the site I manage is now held by a free page on AOL. That site has about 50% of it's links pointing to domains that no longer exist.
I came across an odd datacenter by accident wherein the Google Web Directory was listed at #1 for 'industry name company' and the listings were updated and sorted by PR. Site I mange was #5.
Somethin' wacky going on with the Dmoz data and Google's version of it lately.
I tend to think there's a part II to this update...but maybe not. I haven't seen much change in the data centers over the past 4 days.
<shrug> It's a bit much of a coincidence to have all sites in DMOZ _not_ come up in specific searches.
Everything is just...wrong.
