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| Google, Open Directory Get Foolish
Search Engine watch remarks about Google and the Open Directory's antics on April 1st (April 2, 2002) | | Is Yahoo Losing the Plot?
Ben Hammersley's dissection of Yahoo in The Guardian makes favourable mention of the ODP. (May 2, 2002) | | Microsoft buys the Open Directory -- or Not
Pandia discusses the Microsoft purchase of the Open Directory. (April 2, 2002) | | MSN Delivers Another Brick in "the Wall"
MSN acquires the world's largest web directory. (April 1, 2002) | | Open Directory Project Search Results and ODP Status
Reports on ODP's usage in the search engine world as well as the April 1 prank of apparently being bought by Microsoft and changed to the Microsoft Directory Project aka the Gates Open Directory (GOD). (April 5, 2002) | | Pranksters Rig Web for April Fools
CNet covers April Fools Day at the Open Directory. (April 1, 2002) | | Search Day: Open Directory Project Launches ODP Public Forums
Search Engine Watch comments. (April 8, 2002) | | Search Day: The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 1
Representatives of the ODP and Looksmart spell out what sorts of submissions to these directories are considered spam. (May 29, 2002) | | ZDNet: Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
Microsoft's MSN has launched the Gates Open Directory, otherwise known as GOD, which seeks to simplify copyright on the Web by purchasing all copyrighted material. (April 2, 2002) |
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