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It is still in a question mark whether Dmoz or the Open Directory Project, on its 12th year, has earned themselves any more of the respect that they have been searching for a year back when they said that they were looking for “a little respect” in the field.

Recently Dmoz has been brought back to the discussion as Google’s Matt Cutts answered a few user queries in a new Google Webmaster Help Video.

There was a question for why Google still monitors Dmoz? There have been a lot of allegations that there is corruption between the editors. Even though it is very relevant to a specific area but still it is impossible to get them to list a site.

Cutts says he knows that people have complaints about Dmoz and they doesn’t show it in their one-Google-sort of tabs but he says it can give you a lot of tough time to type in queries. It might even take a long time. Just for example, one might find it much easier to browse by clicking instead of typing in the query, in languages like Japanese, Korean or Chinese and particularly in those countries it becomes much easier to show Dmoz.

But now Dmoz is not used the way they were being before. It is not shown on the main page too. So if someone wants to then there is always other relevant ways. And also the editors can be reached up in the chain. But still then if Dmoz could not be got into then there are still a lot of other good sites one can get into in the internet.

If we count on new visitors Domz is still falling down the slope. And Google is not doing much on it. And also it gets almost over 18% of the referrals from Google.

But in spite of all this points Dmoz says that they still have a plenty of shows left. And so if one tends to take these words from the editorial department then there might new chances from Dmoz coming down in the recent future. According to Dmoz editor-in-chief, Bob Keating, the company has grown enough to be one of the most successful collaborative projects in the internet. This was what he revealed on a post looking up to the last decade. He says that they have been standing strong among its other commercial rivals and are still holds a good position in the search industry. They boast to have a fairly open and collaborative editorial model, a non-commercial nature and open data distribution channel along with a dedicated community. And Keating says these are their main keys to longevity and being important and useful.

He also says that Dmoz receives a lot application from aspiring editors and enlists tons of new sites every week. And now they are looking up for some new ideas and blueprints for the coming days according to how the internet is organized and how the data is used. It is an old method to use the traditional internet directories to find out some piece of information. But the demand for properly organized internet based content is growing higher day by day. The fate of Dmoz will not be decided by just building it to be more SEO friendly or by upgrading its toolset. What is going to work is turning the whole thing on its head.

Keating also enlisted some of their goals for the coming years like, the development of a new API for the data of Dmoz helping the editors and other developers to create new applications with its help. Some of the recent updates made, were from their editors who have been editing a few particular categories. This indicates that there might be developments on progress in the realization of the goals mentioned.