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Description: Press articles in 2000 on or featuring the Open Directory Project.

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• Information Today: Google Introduces Web Directory Using Netscape's Open Directory Project Data

  http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbreader.asp?ArticleID=17825
  Chris Sherman writes about the hybrid directory launched by Google that combines their search technology with ODP listings. Article mentions Google also provides links to relevant directory categories in its primary search service.

• Netscape Netcenter Passes 25 Million Registered User Milestone Worldwide

  http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2000/02/Netscape_Netcenter_Passes_25_Million_Registered_User_02-15-2000.php
  Press release talks about the Netcenter membership milestone and mentions the Netscape Open Directory Project (ODP) includes more than 1.5 million web sites.

• Netscape's Groundbreaking Open Directory Project Surpasses Two Million Web Sites

  http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2000/08/Netscapes_Groundbreaking_Open_Directory_Project_Surpasses_08-14-2000.php
  Press Release covers the rapid growth of the ODP since its inception. Notes that more than 100 leading Internet companies are licensing ODP data.

• Netscape: Ask Jeeves And Netscape's Open Directory Project Team To Bring Relevant And Comprehensive Search Results To Users

  http://www.timewarner.com/newsroom/press-releases/2000/08/Ask_Jeeves_Netscapes_Open_Directory_Project_Team_To_08-14-2000.php
  Press Release covers Ask Jeeves' decision to license ODP data for their primary directory. Mentions the Open Directory Project is available to anyone under a free use license.

• NYTimes.com: Helping Webmasters Land in Search Engines' Nets

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/03/circuits/articles/23sull.html
  Elizabeth Stone writes about world of search engines and how web designers are looking to Danny Sullivan for the answers on how to get traffic from them.

• Salon Technology: Google: We’re Down With ODP

  http://www.salon.com/2000/03/24/google_odp/
  Mark Durham discusses the creation of the Google Directory and explains how they’ve integrated ODP data.

• Slashdot: Dmoz (aka AOL) Changing Guidelines In Sketchy Way

  http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/24/1252232
  Article mentions updates to the Open Directory Project Guidelines. Specifically points out the Illegal Sites description and the new copyright notice.

• Slashdot: Who Owns Dmoz?

  http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/04/24/1352259
  Adam Kuether questions ODP’s relationship with Time Warner/AOL.

• The New York Times: A Marriage of Convenience - and Control

  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/biztech/articles/17digi.html
  Denise Caruso writes about AOL’s proposed purchase of Time Warner and what the two traditional media giants will do with the Open Directory Project.

• Wired: Need A WebBrain to Net Search?

  http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/05/36600
  Andy Patrizio writes about the launch of WetBrain.com and the technology they built using Open Directory Project data.

• Wired: Sort Stories

  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.03/mustread.html?pg=8
  Jeffrey O'Brien briefly discusses Netscape's Open Directory Project.

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