For people to find you in Open Directory itself, the keywords MUST appear in the description or title submitted. Yahoo works in a similar manner. I'm not sure yet. Perhaps some of you can send me your observations. Re-submitting your site to Open Directory will not help, nor would I recommend it.
Most major engines refresh the existing content in their database every four to eight weeks.
Therefore, do your home work in setting up pages for AOL, then exercise patience. Clicking this link will display results from Inktomi. If you skip the first ten DirectHit matches, these will often be similar to HotBot's results. For the first time ever, the FTC has stepped in to stop search engine fraud on the Web. These promoters then uploaded the pages to different domain names and then submitted them to various search engines in order to attract traffic to their site - luring people who were searching for these legitimate Web sites.