Some years ago it seemed like dmoz would become some sort of standard for the web, as though we wouldn't need search engines because everything we needed would be sorted in dmoz. Fortunately this has not happened and a listing in dmoz does not seem as important as it once was.
Now along comes another headache, wikipedia. Wikipedia is now attempting to cover every single topic known to man. the army of ants who were rejecting my sites at dmoz now have a new hobby updating wikipedia. The extent they will go to can be seen at this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Idol
where someone is providing weekly updates on the Australian Idol reality tv show.
At another section I have a link to one of my sites from a wikipedia entry, which funnily enough is actually an incorrect link (they seem to think they are linking to something that they are not).
Worst of all, wikipedia is starting to pop up in the searches for my main search terms. It is starting to be a competitor to me. And what really bugs me is that it seems to have entries that have been optimised for the search engines.
The sooner Google puts a penalty on wikipedia the better, otherwise the internet risks becoming just a wikipedia index.
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