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I heard bout someone saying that on pubcon, cutts said that google doesn't give much importance on directory links.

I read a post somewhere saying buying or selling links for pagerank is considered spam and they may be filtered out.

any comments.

I don't think so they are bad. If you maintain them and avoid crap links or spam links from entering into the directory then directories can be a valuable resource. It's just that people prefer google over directories.