Re: FN-FORUM looksmart listings (was: help choosing an accountant)

date posted 18th January 2002 23:49

On paid submissions is still the traditional looksmart criteria -- basically
no porn sites, no hate sites, no racist sites, decent quality. Paying to be
listed doesn't guarantee a listing in the directory, it's just a promise
that your site will be reviewed within the time specified (5-7 days I
think). Unless they've changed it, once you make it into the UK directory,
you're included in the US one (or 'the world' as listed on the .co.uk site).

I do remember finding a site that *was* a C++ info site but somehow turned
into a porn site... LookSmartians running around desperately trying to get
the link removed from directories world-wide. Quite a day...

isabel


on 18/01/02 19:02, Elizabeth Varley at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

> I used to be an editor for Looksmart in Australia in 1999 and there
> definitely was a character limit on the descriptions. But I'm afraid I can't
> be much help as when I was working on it, it was editor-searched listings
> only, no external submissions.
>
> The only things we had to really look for was that the website was of a
> decent quality, and that it would fit into one of the categories (not
> difficult).
>
> Ahhh the days of trying to think of different descriptions for the hundreds
> of virtually identical regional fire and police station websites in Canada,
> and having competitions in the office as to who could discover the most
> revolving skulls on a site when we were researching the music section...(I
> won btw when I came across a site with the entire background made up of
> repeated revolving skull icons)
>
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
> Elizabeth Varley
> Director
> Online Content UK
> [EMAIL REMOVED]
> http://www.onlinecontentuk.org
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 'The UK network for new media
> editorial professionals'
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~