» Forbes.com: Open-Door Policy Jimmy Wales explains the motivations behind his launch of Wikia Search. ODP is named as a Web 1.0 community aimed at organizing the Internet. http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0507/190.html
» SearchEngineLand.com: History Of AOL Search Danny Sullivan provides a timeline for the major events in the history of AOL Search. Mentions their 1998 purchase of Netscape Inc, which included the Open Directory Project as part of the purchase http://searchengineland.com/070705-194717.php
» Site Content and Use of Web Catalogues The article from Webmaster Central clarifies that the use of scraped content to increase the volume of a site violates Google´s webmaster guidelines. ODP and Wikipedia are named as examples for frequently-copied high quality sources. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/site-content-and-use-of-web-catalogues.html
» WebProNews: DMOZ Blog Opens Stephen Pitts offers his perspective on the launch of the DMOZ blog. http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/09/26/dmoz-blog-opens
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