ChefMoz
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Chef Moz is an offshoot of the Open Directory Project (ODP), is an English open content directory of World Wide Web links of restaurants, the rights to the website are owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors.
Chef Moz, similar to its parent ODP, uses a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic are grouped into categories, which can then include smaller categories.
[edit] Growth
From its beginning in 2000 to the present day, ChefMoz has grown to become the largest global directory of restaurants on the internet. The total number of restaurants indexed since 2000 is recorded in the following table:[1]
| YEAR | Number of Restaurants |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 48000 |
| 2001 | 75000 |
| 2002 | 179000 |
| 2003 | 208000 |
| 2004 | 258000 |
| 2005 | 266000 |
| 2006 | 275000 |
| 2007 | 315000 |
| 2008 | 325000 |
[edit] References
- ^ Statistics from the Wayback Machine
