Forbes.com: Open-Door Policy - http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2007/0507/190.html
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. |
Patent Documents Mentioning the Open Directory Project in 2006 - http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=419
An overview by Bill Slawski. |
Search Engine Journal: 10 Steps AOL Should Take to Reinvent the Open Directory Project - http://www.searchenginejournal.com/aol-dmoz-open-directory-project/5726/
Loren Baker reviews AOL’s relationship with the ODP and provides suggestions about how the project can reinvent itself. |
SearchEngineLand.com: History Of AOL Search - http://searchengineland.com/history-of-aol-search-11634.php
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 |
Site Content and Use of Web Catalogues - http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/site-content-and-use-of-web-catalogues.html
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. |