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CNET News.com: Pranksters Rig Web for April Fools - http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-873177.html
CNET covers April Fools Day pranks including the Open Directory along with Napster and others.

CommunityResources.net Honors the Open Directory Project with the Award of Excellence for Good Internet Citizenship - http://www.communityresources.net/press/dmoz.html
Press release on the excellence award given to the Open Directory Project for its success and contributions from volunteer editors.

Google, Open Directory Get Foolish - http://searchenginewatch.com/2164671
Search Engine watch remarks about Google and the Open Directory's antics on April 1st.

Guardian.co.uk: Is Yahoo Losing the Plot? - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2002/may/02/internetnews.onlinesupplement
Ben Hammersley's dissection of Yahoo in The Guardian makes favourable mention of the ODP.

Microsoft Buys the Open Directory - or Not - http://www.pandia.com/sw-2002/11-god.html
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).

MSN Delivers Another Brick in "the Wall" - http://www.bryndole.com/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html
MSN acquires the world's largest web directory. An April 1st prank in which the ODP becomes GOD (Gates Open Directory).

Open Directory Project Search Results and ODP Status - http://www.searchengineguide.com/orbidex/2002/0405_orb1.html
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).

Search Day: The Search Engine Spam Police, Part 1 - http://searchenginewatch.com/2160011
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 - http://searchenginewatch.com/2159641
Chris Sherman writes about the launch of the ODP editors forum. Describes the significance of the Open Directory in the world of web navigation.

ZDNet: Net laughs at itself on April Fool's - http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,1000000097,2107621,00.htm
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.

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