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• Google, Open Directory Get Foolish - Search Engine watch remarks about Google and the Open Directory's antics on April 1st.
• 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.
• SearchEngineWatch.com: Open Directory Project Launches ODP Public Forums - Chris Sherman writes about the launch of the ODP editors forum. Describes the significance of the Open Directory in the world of web navigation.
• CommunityResources.net Honors the Open Directory Project with the Award of Excellence for Good Internet Citizenship - Press release on the excellence award given to the Open Directory Project for its success and contributions from volunteer editors. (November 16, 2002)
• Guardian.co.uk: Is Yahoo Losing the Plot? - Ben Hammersley's dissection of Yahoo in The Guardian makes favourable mention of the ODP. (May 02, 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 05, 2002)
• Microsoft Buys the Open Directory - or Not - Pandia discusses Microsoft’s purchase of the Open Directory. The article covering the April Fools Day prank mentions ODP will be renamed the Gates Open Directory (GOD). (April 02, 2002)
• MSN Delivers Another Brick in "the Wall" - MSN acquires the world's largest web directory. An April 1st prank in which the ODP becomes GOD (Gates Open Directory). (April 01, 2002)
• CNET News.com: Pranksters Rig Web for April Fools - CNET covers April Fools Day pranks including the Open Directory along with Napster and others. (April 01, 2002)

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