Zeal To Shut Down on March 28

Posted yesterday in the Zealot Round Table forum was a message stating that Zeal.com is being shut down:

Thank you for being a part of the Zeal community and contributing your time and knowledge to the Directory. After trying to put the deserved resources behind Zeal, we have made the conscious decision to shut down Zeal.com. On March 28, 2006 Zeal will no longer be available. We are not selling Zeal.com and have no future plans for it at this time.

The message goes on to softly pitch an alternative LookSmart product - Furl.

I'm certainly sorry to see Zeal go down. Even though I am not a Zealot, I still link to them from this blog because I feel they are a valuable resource for non-commercial websites. I feel bad for all of those heavily involved with the project as they now get shut out of something they put significant time into. Hopefully this will only be temporary and someone or some corp will step in and re-open the doors.

To read what others are saying about this news - check out this thread from the High Rankings Forum.