Comments on: Zeal.com, R.I.P.

By: Blake Butler

Blake Butler — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:23:48 +0000

Link Popularity is very important specially if you want your websites to rank higher in google.~*-

By: zealot

zealot — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:43:47 +0000

Looks like the domain for the dns provider (zealmediagroup.com) for zeal.com expired and the new registrant sold the domain name to someone else.

By: davidhills

davidhills — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:26:24 +0000

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060322-153142

“We are not selling Zeal.com and have no future plans for it at this time. ”

Yeah right.

By: The Search Lounge

The Search Lounge — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:30:57 +0000

[...] Remember when Zeal died a quiet death in 2006? See Zeal.com, R.I.P. [...]

By: okokokalready

okokokalready — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:49:56 +0000

and you need to close down the comments or start editing. The spammers have found you.

By: okokokalready

okokokalready — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:48:51 +0000

having been an OZ, I can honestly say that I ran, screaming from Zeal when Look stupid bought the product. Looksmart tends to destroy things and move on. I knew that our days were numbered. I refused to put any work into anything for them. They needed to pay me first. After all they are worshiping the $ not the learning.

I left.

I was right.

By: martin

martin — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:38:37 +0000

The only consolation, if there is one, is that LookSmart will soon go the same way as zeal. Their concept of providing paid results is dead and their SE traffic and directory searches now represent only a fraction of 1% of the whole â€“ and that is declining.

I was a zeal contributor and, whilst not terribly active, thought that the unique way that zeal included/excluded sites based on real content was great. I also recall a pleasant email exchange with ColinP from New Zealand â€“ a very nice guy. It is a huge shame that all the work and effort that zealots like him put in has been wasted. I also thought the community exchange was entertaining and I visited it often to read the rants of those whose commercial sites had been rejected. The 28th March was a sad day for the internet.

By: MirDoc

MirDoc — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:38:03 +0000

MirDoc here. It was sad. And other share your pain. The crew at DMOZ have been sympathetic. If you miss the thrill of helping to build a directory, then consider joining. The welcome mat is out.

By: David Dalebroux

David Dalebroux — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:56:01 +0000

Broux here. Just weighing in. I enjoyed the vision of Zeal – it was a community with the editor help, and I’m simply saddened to see the thing fall apart. I actually believed in Grub; thought it would revolutionize the web, but after Wisenut sat there for years unchanged, I surrendered. Rather disconcerting to see my kid (now 5) on the community page for the last year and a half, lol.

By: tester

tester — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:29:36 +0000

Hi WAM, HelenH, SophieX. I’m Zealot davidj5. You guys all seem a lot more human here, but it’s like meeting all of one’s old friends at another friend’s funeral.

“maybe someone could create a memorial web site for all the ex-Zealots to post their thoughts on a permanent(!) basis.”
When Infoseek/Go died, volunteers from their directories set up several new directories, and if I’m not mistaken, some of them are still going strong, maybe as commercial enterprises. Why not give it a try?